Does fiction owe us any fact? Several years ago I was happily binge-reading the series of books by Walter Mosley featuring the Los Angeles detective Easy Rawlins. I just loved Easy. He was a smart black man determined to bring decency and dignity into his life behind the eight ball.
I was devastated when Mosley killed off Easy. For no good reason. Not even a part of any plot. I vowed no more Mosley for me.
A few months ago I was shocked to see a new Easy Rawlins book featured on Amazon. What? Easy is alive again? Just like that? I was happy to read about Easy in a new adventure, but does an author have a right to kill off a character in one book and then have him appear in another?
What about the reader and our emotional investment? Just asking.
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