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The story opens – Gillian is in Turkey, for a story conference. The story stars Gillian Perholt, an intellectual woman, a woman who lives in her head – a woman who is a “narratologist” – she travels the world, collecting stories and myths … she goes to conferences with other narratologists, all over the world. But hang in there … the ending is awesome. I highly recommend it!!! For me, it was slow in the beginning … so just know that, going in. The story is life-affirming, and I LOVE her for writing it. If my friend had walked up and I had 1 page to go, I would have been forced to say, “Great to see you! Hi! Just let me finish this story … I’ll be right with you.”Īnd – like with Possession – the last 3 lines pulsed with feeling, aliveness – and I found myself with tears rolling down my face. that I was mentally willing my friend not to show up until I had finished. Once I got to the end – (and I was lingering over the reading of it, by that point I never wanted it to end!) I was so invested in this story, and in these characters – that I found myself, 3 pages to go, sitting on a bench on the edge of Central Park – I was waiting for a friend – and I was so into the story, so so into it …. It gripped me slowly – it’s a bit slow to get going, but I trust Byatt, so I just go with it. It’s a novella – and I remember the first time I read it. Still excerpting the short story fairy-tale collection by AS Byatt (my favorite – obviously!) – called The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye – This excerpt is from the title story.

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