It turned out that all stories betray you when you’re down to chasing crickets for your next meal. A story might help you get through your life, he said, but it doesn’t literally keep you alive–if anything, most people who have power turn their story into a brick wall keeping out somebody else’s truth so that they can continue the life they believe themselves to be leading, trying somehow to preserve the idea that they’re good people in their small lives, despite their involvement, however indirect, with bigger evils.

Think about it.

Hannaham, James. Delicious Foods: A Novel. (New York: Little, Brown and Co, 2015), 367.