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Maybe characters don’t have to be my friends
Posted on December 26, 2014December 23, 2014

Maybe characters don’t have to be my friends

To those who have found Nora hard to like, Messud points out that she would seem extremely likable if you met her, “and that’s the point. It costs her a great deal to be a likable character … underneath that she feels she has had to hide, up to this point, her real thoughts, her real … Continue reading Maybe characters don’t have to be my friends

Posted on September 16, 2013September 16, 2013

Maybe characters don’t have to be my friends

To those who have found Nora hard to like, Messud points out that she would seem extremely likable if you met her, “and that’s the point. It costs her a great deal to be a likable character … underneath that she feels she has had to hide, up to this point, her real thoughts, her real … Continue reading Maybe characters don’t have to be my friends

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Andrea Badgley is a mom, wife, reader, and writer. She grew up on the coast of Georgia and now lives with her husband and two children in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia. Her work appears in Southern Women’s Review, on the Brevity blog, and on The Daily Post. Follow her on Twitter @andreabadgley.

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