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The Problem With Dead Narrators: ‘The Catastrophic History of You and Me’

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There’s a growing genre of novels narrated by dead, young girls. Leila Sales examines the problems with supernatural protagonists.

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A teenage girl narrating a novel from beyond the grave isn’t a new idea, though it is often a wildly successful one. Consider Gabrielle Zevin’s critically acclaimed Elsewhere,

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