The Fiction Class - Susan Breen

Is it a novel or a book of writing tips? It's both actually, if you want it to be. On her website, the author says it came out of "discussions I had with my mother". So it is about a writer and her mother, but also about a creative writing class. Since Breen herself has taught such a class, parts of it are autobiographical, although she declares there is a lot of fiction woven in. The story is structured around the nine weekly classes and what happens in between them. The sections on the classes are numbered sequentially, but they are interspersed with numbered chapters so Chapter One comes ... more