![]() What all this knowing self-deprecation masks is the fact that he doesn’t try very hard to give his Alex/Liza a voice of her own. Sebald called this “documentary fiction.” And Lerner has deftly defended his own “self-involvement” by admitting it, or by admitting that his best friend perceives it, in what is already understood to be not memoir but a variation on the truth. We’re not meant to take this as fact but as something close to it, an adjacent narrative of self. She chose you for your deficiencies, not in spite of them.” will never go totally AWOL, but you’re also sufficiently infantile and self-involved to cede all the substantial parenting to her. This is how he figures it: “she assumes you’re too scattered and scared to intervene dramatically. The relationship with Alex/Liza is long-standing, committed and platonic (mostly), but despite the sperm request, his role as a possible father is oddly undefined. ![]() ![]() Despite his inwardly voiced insecurities, the evidence shows he’s engaging and charming. It’s clear from the prose what makes him a good genetic prospect: He’s blazingly intelligent, creative and sensitive to the world. ![]()
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