In her latest novel, This Rescue Thing, Penny Allen offers a vivid tale that many literary theorists would call “autofiction,” or a fictionalized autobiography. And this amazing “rescue thing,” full of dramatic intensity and carried out by the narrator, was inspired by certain events of the author’s life in the mid-1990s. It is during this time that the narrator willingly leaves her troubled job in … Continue reading Psychosexual Dynamics and Unexpected Self-Discovery Permeate Penny Allen’s This Rescue Thing by Mona la Liseuse