What you know versus what you think you know.

“So, is that it, Asian? Have I learned all there is to know? Do I fade away like a ghost, or is there more? And what about you? Are you a guardian angel who will fly off to save some other poor, wretched, lost soul?"

“Is that how you see yourself, Ray, how you see me? Guardian angel? Hardly—you chose to call me Asian, never asking my name. Why, Ray? You never questioned something as basic as my name while questioning everything else."

Some readers commented that it was racist for Ray to refer to the mysterious stranger only as “Asian.” I knew those who did had not read the entire book. 

​The answer appears near the end of The Unlived Lives of Raymond Quinn, and sharing any more than these quotes here would give away one of the more important messages of the Unlived Lives trilogy.

I’ve described the Unlived Lives books as intentionally crafted “word mazes”: the reader thinks they know where the story is headed, only to realize they don’t. The way out of the word maze, back to the story arc, is to set aside assumptions.

The Unlived Lives trilogy is fiction. Wouldn’t it be nice if we all did that more often, living the one life we do live?

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