Sleeping with the Enemy
by Seth King
There
is a narrative beat, a tone that is special to dramatic plays and almost
exclusively there. That tone was captured in the film Before Sunrise. It makes
this film captivatingly timeless. I’ve never read that narrative voice in a
novel until I read Sleeping with the Enemy by Seth King. The dialogue and
narrative seamlessly merge and create this tone that wrapped me like a shroud,
because seeing what’s coming, knowing what’s coming – doesn’t mean you want it
to come.
Nonetheless,
that burning in the back of my throat their morning after made me wish for a
better world. This nonsense we live with (too short, too tall, too skinny, too
fat, too black, too white, too gay, too straight) is just that, nonsense. I
close my eyes and breathe, “this too shall pass” (which is most definitely not
a biblical quote). One day the world will continue to continue and young men
like Wade and Thomas can truly have a happy life. Not an ending, but a life.
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