My teenage daughter reads constantly but only fantasy and YA, and when I try to share passages from the literary novel I'm working on, she says it's boring and asks why nothing happens. I want her to appreciate different kinds of storytelling, but I'm starting to question whether my attachment to interior, character-driven narrative is actually just pretentious gatekeeping.
More people experience this than they realize.
Cross-generational conversations about fiction can expose unexamined assumptions about literary value and accessibility.
“Where Are You with The novel — form and possibility?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.