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Janette Turner Hospital's Charades enacts a complex and lively intertwining of narrative strands in which contiguities between different modes of representing truths are examined. These modes include the demands of stories, whether fabular or realist, the drive to explain the origins of the universe, along with the claims to objectivity of photographs and history. In the process, the book playfully activates parallels with the story of Shahrazad, leading to constant juxtapositioning of narrative theory and the protocols of scientific explanation. In turn, the teasing energies of the multiplicity of stories come up against the hermeneutic responsibilities exacted by Holocaust deniers or the gaps and absences in our own family histories.