Nov 18, 2016
Elena Ferrante and Me: An Irrational Essay
“I felt betrayed. Not because she was no longer anonymous; I had never cared about that. But because she is not Elena.”
Katherine Faw is from North Carolina. Her debut novel, Young God, was long-listed for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize and named a best book of the year by The Times Literary Supplement, The Houston Chronicle, BuzzFeed, and more. Ultraluminous, a novel, is forthcoming in 2017. She lives in Brooklyn.
“I felt betrayed. Not because she was no longer anonymous; I had never cared about that. But because she is not Elena.”
“As a personality the main thing is that I am determined. In June 2001 I was determined to commit suicide.”
