Lorrie Moore’s protagonist goes on a road trip with a dead girlfriend
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Finn is a schoolteacher who traffics in conspiracy theories. “The real story is never the official one,” he insists. He believes that PowerPoint augurs the end of civilisation, and he tests his own sanity by replying to newspaper editorials and waiting to see if his screeds are published: “In this manner he could tell, roughly, how deranged he was that day.” Finn is still hung up on his “richly bleak” former girlfriend, so he is glad to find himself on an unexpected road trip in her company. The only hitch is that his ex happens to be dead.
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Culture June 24th 2023
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