In Claire Messud’s acclaimed novel The Woman Upstairs, her fascinating character of Nora was held up as a perfect example of an unreliable narrator, to the point where some readers even questioned her sanity. In The Hunters, a collection of two novellas, Messud seems to be dissecting the very idea of what a narrator is.…
Unreliable narrators often tell the best stories and Nora Eldridge, the narrator of The Woman Upstairs, announces her unreliability from the outset. If you’d told me my own story about someone else, I would have assured you that this person was completely unhinged. Or a child Tellingly, the book opens with an angry tantrum. How…
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