What do you do when a friend is a pathological liar? In her latest book, author Zoe Whittall explores con artists, and the elusiveness of black and white morality.
Life is not going well at all for Shelby, whose beloved wife has suddenly died, or Gibson, sliding into depression in the midst of his coming divorce, two of the three main characters in Zoe Whittall’s lovely new novel “The Fake.” And that’s before they meet the third, the exquisitely charming pathological liar Cammie.
Not to go into details, I will say that I have had experiences with people like Cammie in my life. That’s why I wrote the book. But it’s also why it took me a really long time to be able to fictionalize the experience. I needed to find the coherence and the humour and the irony in it. I’m the type of novelist who needs to find irony in every line and keep it alive in the language.
The propulsion in the story is about when and how will Shelby and Gibson find out the truth? And even the real truth about Cammie is a still a bit elusive in the end. There are so many stories out there about con artists that are quite morally black and white. I wanted readers to kind of feel the way Shelby and Gibson feel, unsure about what’s right and how to handle it. Cammie is a confusing character.
It’s impossible for them to know why. Research why people lie in these extreme ways and you find there’s no consensus.
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