Attention-Seeking Behavior: A Novel

A confession from a liar that exposes the interrelation of language, control, performance, intimacy, and love

I have never told anyone about this before. There is no way to prove that it happened, but why would I lie?

The narrator of Attention-Seeking Behavior wants to tell you about Normal Ben, the man she’s been seeing: their running jokes, the stories she’s told him. She wants to tell you about the incorrect belief that tiny facial expressions betray a person’s real feelings. She wants to ...