Sublime

Well-meaning friends never failed to warn me, if a white guy was attracted to me, that he probably had an Asian fetish. The result: I distrusted my desirousness. My sexuality was a pathology. If anyone non-Asian liked me, there was something wrong with him.

Lisbeth is fascinating because she is both the perceived “problem” and the solution. The same is true of Rachel in The Girl on the Train and Amy in Gone Girl. All three are part of more complex and gripping narratives than the standard and stereotypical good vs. evil plot. These girls are somehow all of it—the good, the bad, the problem, and the so

Jung once observed that each therapist must ask the question: What task is this person's neurosis helping him or her avoid?

To truthfully write about race, I almost have to write against narrative because the racialized mind is, as Frantz Fanon wrote, an “infernal circle.”