Her afterlife boredom leads to terrible mischief.īecause I don’t believe in heaven or hell I wondered how to create a fictional afterlife for such a creature.
Her lack of purpose after death is largely due to her lack of purpose in life. What was she in life? How did she get here? Rather than justifying her afterlife behavior with a traumatic injustice I’ve imagined her as sort of an aimless jerk, a typical late 20 th century American girl (like me, like many of my friends). Instead of starting with a sympathetic living character and seeing how the vengeful spirit haunts her, I wanted to see how the vengeful spirit came into being. My plan was to portray a vengeful female spirit, the kind that wreaks havoc in countless stories and films. MISKOWSKI: I Wish I Was Like You is an existential ghost story. HELLNOTES: Thanks for discussing your upcoming novel I Wish I Was Like You ( available July 7) with us! Let’s start at the beginning: What can you tell us about this story that appears to mix a murder mystery and a ghost story? How would you describe this novel, and does it fit into any one genre?
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