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8 Books That Use Direct Address Storytelling

by Electric Literature
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Writing addressed to a specific “you” generates an effect unlike the electricity of classic second-person narratives. Instead of a jolt, direct-address writing delivers a subtler charge, like opening someone else’s mail or overhearing one end of an emotionally raw monologue.
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The Skin and Its Girl

A Novel
Sarah Cypher, 2023

The Color Purple

Alice Walker, 2011

Catch the Rabbit

Lana Bastašic, 2021

The Thirty Names of Night

A Novel
Zeyn Joukhadar, 2020

The Friend

A Novel
Sigrid Nunez, 2019

The Wrong End of the Telescope

Rabih Alameddine, 2021

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado, 2020

Heavy

An American Memoir
Kiese Laymon, 2018

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong, 2021

The Skin and Its Girl

A Novel
Sarah Cypher, 2023

The Color Purple

Alice Walker, 2011

Catch the Rabbit

Lana Bastašic, 2021

The Thirty Names of Night

A Novel
Zeyn Joukhadar, 2020

The Friend

A Novel
Sigrid Nunez, 2019

The Wrong End of the Telescope

Rabih Alameddine, 2021

In the Dream House

Carmen Maria Machado, 2020

Heavy

An American Memoir
Kiese Laymon, 2018

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong, 2021
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