Who´s really telling this story? That´s the mystery at the heart of Danielle Mémoire´s novel, which opens with a writer on stage at a public reading-a public reading that isn´t one, because she never reads a word, much to the audience´s annoyance. When an audience member finally heckles her, the writer´s response sets off a chain reaction of nested stories that tumble one after another like a row of dominoes.Each storyteller in the series (most are writers at public readings) builds on what´s come before while often radically changing its meaning. Along the way, we encounter fatal stepladders, a painter obsessed with a transom window, a lovestruck dog-walker, and a lost cat restored to its owners through divine intervention. Playful, thought-provoking, and utterly unique, Public Reading Followed by Discussion defies classification and invites every reader to join the game.
