How does The Diviners lend itself to the multiple narrator format?
After I got to thinking about how it was dependent on the notion of a miniseries as a television serial narrative, I started watching a lot of television shows. I don’t actually have a TV, but when I was writing the book I decided I had to go back and look at all of these old miniseries like Roots and The Thornbirds. Then I also started watching some of the serial narratives that people watch now, like Six Feet Under. I got really interested in how each episode can be different from each other episode, and how the voice of each writer and the guest star really change the look and feel of each different episode. So I decided that offered me an opportunity in the book to do a thing, to use a character’s voice with the third-person limited point of view. That kind of structure is also native to me. I like collage-oriented things, and I like books that have a lot of constituent parts and different mysteries concealed here and there. The novel is set during the tumult following the 2000 pre
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