Someone recently described the type of fiction that What We Lose is as “modular.” I am in love with this vocabulary word, and I might be at least moderately in love with modular fiction. It’s the kind of story (let’s see if I can actually describe it) that leaves your imagination to fill in some (or lots) of the connective tissue of the plot. Chapters are of varying length — some as short as a few sentences — and may not be strictly chronological. It is a type of storytelling at which fanfiction writers excel, so perhaps that is the…
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