The Writer As Explorer

This week I have decided to write about “The Preacher Collects” by Gail Levin. This story was not what I first envisioned it to be. I had the idea that it would have some sort of focus on religion. Looking at the artwork I was intrigued to find out how the author would relate it to such things, but that isn’t what we got. We got more of an account on other’s lives which I am sure most of it was fiction, but it was more of regurgitated information with elements of a story that was not fully executed or told to its full potential. The author also inserts herself into the piece which to me makes me feel as though they wanted to give realism to it, but honestly it made it more confusing to me than anything else. There are obviously elements of a story here, but I do not think that the author had found it.