What makes it fiction? How would you react differently to it if it were nonfiction/memoir?
I would say that the strange activities and how the Wei is described make it seem fictional than a memoir. I feel like for fictional works we can only know what the author tells the reader vs non-fiction where we can ask the actual person's thoughts in an interview. I think it's the amount of coincidence from getting the phone call to Koko to actually meet her in real life which made it unbelievable if it were non-fiction.
I'm not sure I agree w/ you, Christine. How strange is this story, really, in the context of what's going on now in our lives w/ this pandemic? It's actually pretty everyday stuff. However, if this were a memoir say, that you turned in to the class (taking in account a switch in genders), I would ask you, "Why are you telling this story?" "How did this experience 'change' your life?" and so on. I think we accept a lot of mystery since it's labeled fiction and not NF.
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