d Tuttle (2003) outline as "distinguished by its reliance on the textual or narrative metaphor" (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, "There are multiple ways to story one's life" (p. 214), and Sophie's narrative can be seen as another way of looking at Hilde's own life from her fa
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