Sara Levine: Treasure Island!!!
“If you’re doing an unreliable narrator, you have to drop clues so the reader can infer the author’s presence behind the narrative voice.”
Sara Levine joins me to discuss her novel Treasure Island!!!
When a college graduate with a history of hapless jobs (ice cream scooper, gift wrapper, laziest ever part-time clerk at The Pet Library) reads Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Treasure Island, she is dumbstruck by the timid design of her life. Convinced that Stevenson's book is cosmically intended for her, she redesigns her life according to its Core Values: boldness, resolution, independence, and horn-blowing. The New York Times raves, "A rollicking tale, shameless, funny and intelligent."