Young Jake, her boyfriend, is excited for the protagonist to meet his family and for them to form a deeper connection with the protagonist. Reid represents this by having the protagonist’s main conflict center on whether she should end things with Jake. The protagonist represents two women Jake considers he could have loved and whom Jake wants to make the final decision. Jake is actively writing this narrative immediately prior to his suicide. The novel opens with the unnamed female protagonist driving with her boyfriend to his parents’ house for dinner. In 2020, a movie adaption of the novel directed by Charlie Kaufman was released for streaming on Netflix. The novel is written primarily in first person with the Speaker’s interludes in third person. I’m Thinking of Ending Things is Iain Reid’s first novel and was a finalist for the 2016 Shirley Jackson Award for books written in the psychological suspense and horror categories.
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