‘Penance’: Meandering critique of the true crime industry
Can fiction both satirize and critique our fascination with the true crime industry? In “Penance” British author Eliza Clark attempts that feat with mixed results. The 29-year-old’s sophomore novel is a fictionalized account of a scandalous true crime non-fiction book detailing the horrific death of a teenage girl. Clark takes a page from Stephen King…
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