“Verity” by Colleen Hoover: New York Times bestseller’s characters are writers with dissociative symptoms (multiple personality is a dissociative disorder)

Lowen and Verity are two female fiction writers.  Verity may or may not be a murderer, since she writes both a confession and a retraction.  It is also unclear whether Verity’s muteness after a car accident is brain damage, faking, or a posttraumatic, dissociative symptom (multiple personality is a dissociative disorder).

Lowen, the narrator, also has dissociative states of mind.  She has a history of sleepwalking since childhood.  One morning, she awoke “with a broken wrist and covered in blood” (1, p. 119).

The author has a sense of humor: "I was good at spewing bullshit.  It's why I became a writer" (1, p. 206).

1. Colleen Hoover. Verity. New York, Grand Central Publishing, 2018.