For this installment of the KTCO Book Club, I’m joined by writer Alyssa Harad for a conversation about Tove Jansson’s 1982 novel The True Deceiver. Despite the slimness of the volume, Jansson’s novel yet contains a surprising degree of depth and complexity, not to mention psychological tension, in a story that challenges the reader to consider the nature of truth, honesty, and different forms of deception.

(Conversation recorded September 22, 2020.)

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Show Notes:

• Tove Jansson - The True Deceiver
• Alyssa Harad
• Alyssa Harad - Coming to My Senses: A Story of Perfume, Pleasure, and an Unlikely Bride
• #KTCOBookClub on Twitter
• Moomin
• Ali Smith
• Tove Jansson - The Summer Book
• Flannery O’Connor
• Eudora Welty
• Sherwood Anderson - Winesburg, Ohio
• Keep the Channel Open - Episode 113: Matthew Salesses
• Tove Jansson - Fair Play
• William Faulkner - The Sound and the Fury
• Christiane Ritter - A Woman in the Polar Night
• Tove Jansson - Moominland Midwinter

Transcript Episode Credits

• Editing/Mixing: Mike Sakasegawa
• Music: Podington Bear
• Transcription: Shea Aguinaldo