Even if we’re at a stage of our life where we don’t particularly like certain members of our family, that’s also a part of who we are. I believe that family is integral to our identities.
Longtime readers of the blog know how much I value family. I believe that Made You Up is a novel that will be fun to reread for clues that you didn’t pick up at first read.įamily is not entirely absent from the novel. Once the pieces begin to click into place, you begin to recognize the discrepancies that have taken place, and everything begins to make more sense. how could “that” not be real? Whhhyyyyyyyy?). and so forth.) Though I began to question my sanity, I actually enjoyed the “big reveals” at the end (except for that one tragic one. rather, this other thing you thought was real isn’t real at all. You can see what a headache I was beginning to develop by the time Zappia began to clear things up for me. I began to think that maybe Alex made up those interactions. For example, Tucker so rarely appears after Miles is introduced that, even though I saw him interact with people other than Alex, I began to doubt that he really existed. (Ever study Jane Eyre or The Marquise of O in a college class?) In the case of Made You Up, however, you can’t trust that everything you see actually happens. Yes, we shouldn’t ever completely trust the narrator of any book we read because any narrator is going to have his or her biases, and some narrators may even have a reason to lie. The major flaw of having an unreliable narrator is that we cannot ever completely trust the narrator. While it’s nice as a reader to get the closure, I doubt events will always wrap up so nicely in reality, and I encourage readers to keep this in mind while reading Made You Up.
This means that Alex also learns the truth. By the end, we learn what’s real and what existed only in Alex’s mind down to the smallest details we wouldn’t have thought to question. That said, I do want to acknowledge that Zappia wraps up the novel rather cleanly. In the process, we come a little closer to understanding what it would be like to be unable to discern what’s real and what isn’t real. On the one hand, I love the complexity that Zappia creates by intertwining reality and delusions so that we, the readers, finds ourselves questioning everything that we’re told. Made You Up is a mind boggling read.Īlex’s unreliable narration is both the charm and the major flaw of this novel. I would think that Alex perceives reality only to later question it only to later question my doubts. Made You Up is a novel that will make you question everything that you see. I never questioned if it was real or not.
That first lobster scene is so cute, so precious, so full of feels. I fell in love with Made You Up from the time lobsters were first mentioned.
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