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On this episode, Marcela reads from Sayed Kashua\\u2019s fourth, and latest novel,\\xa0Track Changes. The novel was published in December by Grove Press.

Kashua\\u2019s protagonist is a nameless \\u201cI\\u201d who shares considerable biographical overlaps with the author. This suggests, perhaps even implies, the so-called truth of Kashua\\u2019s first-person fiction. Yet his character, whose job is to transcribe others\\u2019 memories onto the page, repeatedly reveals his elisions from and additions to strangers\\u2019 memoirs-for-hire, often inserting his own memories as their own, thereby erasing his life in scattered pieces. The narrator\\u2019s confessions are hardly reliable, making every level of his storytelling suspect, which Kashua further visually underscores by \\u201ctrack changes\\u201d-style crossed-out text.