Once the deeds are done she escapes to Brandy’s apartment, which is actually a hotel room. When he regains consciousness she forces him to take sedatives and locks him in the trunk of his own car then sets Evie’s house on fire. There is a brief scuffle but the Narrator overpowers Manus/Seth and she locks him in a closet. Manus/Seth come clean with his affair with Evie and he also reveals that they both conspired to shoot the Narrator. It is also at this specific moment that the identity of Manus/Seth are revealed to be one and the same. It is worth noting that because of Brandy’s therapy and influence and the non-linear flow of events in story telling the Narrator has now begun referring to Manus as Seth. The assailant turns out to be Manus Kelley, the narrator’s boyfriend. On the first night of her stay an assailant breaks into the house wielding a large kitchen knife. Shortly after the narrator has moved in Evie tells her that she must leave for Cancun but tells her that she can stay home as long as she needs even though she is away. Upon the narrator’s recovery Evie pleads with her to stay and live with her. Patience which will be only one of the many new personas that will be used by the narrator. Brandy takes this even further, extending this concept of renaming as a coping mechanism even to people that she has known in her former life. More than just teaching the narrator to speak again Brandy also instructs her to piece together a new life by living out a completely new, fully fabricated identity, complete with a new name. The therapist is a trans woman named Brandy Alexander. The injury she sustains however ends her career as a model and all but renders her incapable of speech requiring her to undergo speech therapy. Miraculously she is able to make her way to a nearby hospital, saving her life. The narrator then tells of how she was disfigured: she is shot in the face-the bullet is of a particularly large caliber and her jaw is all but blown off completely-as she was driving down the highway. While in modeling school she also encounters Evelyn Cottrell, who goes by the name “Evie.” Evie and Manus have an affair behind the narrator’s back this act will serve as a catalyst for events later on in the novel. Eventually the two end up becoming a couple. The narrator meets up with Manus Kelley, a policeman, as she prepares to become a model. In response to this, she pursues a modeling career where she feels she will get the attention she seeks. The Narrator then reasons that this is one of the major roots of her antipathy towards Shane: even posthumously he still gets all the attention from her parents that she dearly craved. Her parents then respond to his death in a strange way: they become fanatical gay rights advocates. Not too long after that the narrator’s folks get a mysterious phone call, informing them that Shane has passed away because of HIV-AIDS complications. Her parents threw him out of their house when they learned that he had contracted gonorrhea from one of his gay lovers after having undergone a routine strep throat test in school. She begins to detail her resentment for Shane, her older brother. Here the narrator reveals her humble roots: she is a farmer’s daughter and came from a backwater rural community. The narration continues with the disjoined sequence of events remembered: Evie has just shot Brandy and it is at this point that she decides to tell her backstory, recalling how she had first met Brandy. The story begins on Evie Cottrell’s wedding day as the ceremony commences, her house is currently being reduced to ash in a fierce fire. These personas are fabricated and given to her by another character, Brandy Alexander, who accompanies her throughout most of the novel.
Patience, and Bubba-Joan, throughout the story. Recollections of mostly past incidents are told from the vantage point of a mutilated woman that assumes several identities, such as Shannon McFarland, Daisy St. Invisible Monsters can be a challenging read as the novel unfolds in a stream-of-consciousness format. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own.
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