In my mind, if a book is listed as a memoir or is
non-fiction, it must be 100 percent true. I’m trusting that the publishers will
either fact check the proposed novels, or at least do a little background check
on the authors. It is up to the publishers to look into memoirs and nonfiction
novels, if they didn’t then any book could really be not the whole 100 percent
truth. A half-truth novel could still be a good story with good morals, but the
authors shouldn’t try and make people believe they are the complete truth. Frey
and Mortenson should have just told the complete truth, or made their novels
fiction not a memoir. We do need genres, and we do need to label from what is
fiction and non-fiction because it can mean one story is a complete fake and
one story is the complete truth. Non-fiction should just be complete truth, and
as readers we are relying on the authors and publishers for complete truth.
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