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hart and Tuttle (2003) outline as ôdistinguished by its reliance on the textual or narrative metaphorö (p. 214). Narrative therapy is useful here not only because both families appear in a novel but also because one of the families appears to be a completely fictional, narrative invention of the other.

In fact, the Amundsens can be seen as an attempt by Major Knag to explain and understand his own family. As Gehart and Tuttle (2003) observe, ôThere are multiple ways to story oneÆs lifeö (p. 214), and SophieÆs narrative can be seen as another way of looking at HildeÆs own life from her fath

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