Comic Aparna Nancherla, who spins insecurity into gold, explains how her new memoir, 'Unreliable Narrator,' unpacks impostor syndrome and counters go-go feminism.
In 2018, Christine Pride teamed up with Jo Piazza to write a novel about an interracial friendship. It went so well they wrote a second, “You Were Always Mine.”Each chapter of “Unreliable Narrator” plumbs one of Nancherla’s many emotional pain points. “Be Free, You Wrinkly Ghost!” opens, “I’ve never been fully on board with my face” and goes on to detailNancherla has undergone to correct a droopy eyelid and underbite.
“What’s wrong with expressing doubt?,” Nancherla wonders. “I don’t even know who I’d be without that.” In the same chapter, Nancherla weighs the ups and downs of her college bout with anorexia. “I know what you’re thinking. In an arena typically dominated by white females, I am a trailblazer!Then she drops the joke: “The ugly truth was that my body disappearing made me more visible — in a good way.”
It’s not just the book’s serious notes but also the weight of Nancherla’s ambivalence that makes her message stand out — it’s a kind of counterprogramming against the“Questioning or expressing doubt doesn’t automatically mean making a woman smaller or weaker,” Nancherla says. “That’s a construct that’s been drilled into us. The masculine ideal is presenting yourself without fears or hesitation. A more feminine approach is to explore the contradictions in wanting power.
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