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Category: Contemporary Fiction

The Elegy of the Ghost Narrator: On Noelle Ihli’s Ask for Andrea

Posted on March 6, 2026July 2, 2026 by Tejashwini

Narration from beyond the grave occupies a peculiar place in fiction. It borrows the language of the supernatural while often pursuing entirely different ends. Rather than using death as a source of terror, many works employ the dead narrator to extend the boundaries of memory, allowing the story to continue after the point where an…

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