Margaret Atwood's quote "My Father's House has the tension and pace of a detective novel - except that the detective is a part of the narrator's self, and so is the murder victim." is pretty self explanatory if one has read "My Father's House" (or knows what it's about). Atwood's quote is indeed very befitting because Sylvia Fraser had somehow done the miraculous act of splitting herself into two people unaware of the other's existence - a victim and a detective of sorts. Both live in one body but seem to be of different minds. Her comparison of the life story to that of a detective novel seems appropriate. When I read the excerpt, I found myself wondering how Fraser would analyze and collect the clues she had embedded in herself to reach the truth she had unknowingly buried so long ago. Fraser had to search through vestiges of a second life led unconsciously.To discover an occurrence so terrible and catalytic hidden within one's own mind seems very profound to me. It must have been that much more unbelievable to the detective that discovered she was indeed the victim.
- Lucie M
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