Truly Madly Guilty is a good read - not because it's the winning novel of the 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards - but because it's truly good.
The author Liane Moriarty unfolds her page-turning story about three families joining an embarrassing barbecue, creating tension by what one says and what one doesn't say.
After reading a few novels lately I got to thinking about writers as psychoanalysts (Liane Moriarty certainly is one of them) and the knack they need to show us what's hidden behind people's minds.
A writer knows what's behind people's mind. And a good writer knows the art of bringing that into focus. Liane Moriarty, in other words, won't just say that people are embarrassed. She writes: "Everyone seemed to be deliberately not looking at her, the way people did when you had food in your teeth and they didn't want to tell you, so they kept trying not to see."
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