Suits: A Narrative of About Twenty-Seven Hours, More or Less

"Jennifer Smith's 'Suits: A Narrative of About Twenty-Seven Hours, More or Less' is more narrative-based than the previous three works. It is the story of a character's response to her father's death, but the total of fourteen extracts that makes up the main plotline is broken into visual and audio snippets. The reader of the story inserts themselves, via clicks on a visual icon of a suit, into random stages of the narrative line. That randomness reflects an alternative to a more traditional, linear story line. As Smith tells us, 'our self-narratives, as we experience them and as we remember them, are rarely so neatly packaged. Frequently, we come to know to the stories of self only through loosely-connected, non-temporally located vignettes [...] we construct our sense of self, like a patchwork, in bits and pieces that fragment our autobiography.'" -- From The New River Journal