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Every protagonist in literature is lonely.

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Jane Eyre, Elizabeth Bennet, Pip, Miss Jean Brodie, Holden Caulfield.

They all live inside themselves thats what makes them interesting.

The contented character has no place to go, no paths to improvement or destruction or unravelling.

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Yambo has suffered a head injury.

He can remember every book hes ever read, every cartoon his childhood self rapturously took in.

Yes, this is a novel narrated by a baby floating upside down in a woman.

A Separation by Katie Kitamura

Yes, its also a retelling ofHamletset in modern England.

Jake Whyte is tending her flock of sheep on a remote, rain-blasted English island.

In 2013, authorities discovered a man named Christopher Knight, a.k.a.

Nutshell by Ian McEwan

I dont want to participate.

An Emily Dickinson scholar sets up home on a farm in rural Wales, fleeing her marriage.

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