'People Collide' is a 'Freaky Friday'-type exploration of the self and persona
Isle McElroy's novel covers a deep exploration of marriage, love, and the ways we know one another — while also touching on how so much of how we navigate the world depends on how it sees us.
Isle McElroy's sophomore novel, People Collide, begins with a literal save-the-cat trope, used to delightfully deliberate effect.
Originating as the title of a popular screenwriting book by Blake Snyder, "save the cat" refers to the idea that a narrative should establish the likeability of its main character — by having them, for example, save a cat that's stuck in a tree — early in the text so that the audience is on board with that character's coming adventure.
"Each day," McElroy's narrator Eli that strengthens the funny, self-deprecating, and terribly insecure narrator.
