Everything you need to understand or teach Checkout 19 by Claire-Louise Bennett.
In Claire-Louise Bennett's novel Checkout 19, an enigmatic female writer attempts to reconstruct a story she wrote 20 years prior. Because her ex-boyfriend destroyed the manuscript before she could finish it, she struggles to remember its exact details. She has indeed read and written so many stories since, she admits she cannot recount the tale accurately. The project of recovering this lost manuscript inspires the narrator's reflections on her childhood experiences, her historical reading habits, and her evolving writing practices. Toggling between the first, second, and third person points of view, the narrative explores themes including entrapment, imagination, and the past.
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