The Problem of the Unreliable Narrator

Can you trust that voice in your head?

The best novel I’ve ever read is Christy Lefteri’s The Beekeeper of Aleppo. I don’t want to give too much away in case you haven’t read it. But at some point in the story, you start wondering if the main character is really seeing some of the things he says he is seeing.

You start questioning the truth of the story as told by the narrator, and it makes f…