Sebold’s employment of Susie as our dead homodiegetic narrator allows for a fantastical view into characters’ personal spaces when they are alone, a technique that could not occur through a live narrator. As part of Susie’s newfound maturity in...

It is not uncommon for the pain of physical trauma to transcend into mental trauma as well. This can be seen in Alice Sebold’s memoir Lucky, in which she describes the aftermath of a brutal rape. Although she was physically hurt by the man that...