“Pineapple Street” (post 2) by Jenny Jackson: Character who thought in italics (post 1) has memory gap from either alcohol or multiple personality

Georgiana “had a bruise on her forearm that she didn’t remember getting” (1, p. 200). And her friend, Lena, noticed that “when they drank, Georgiana slipped quickly from buzzed to blackout” (1, p. 204).

But since Lena knew that Georgiana had had only three drinks (1, p. 200), she wondered if Georgiana had “slipped quickly from buzzed to blackout,” because she had also taken a tranquilizer for anxiety.

And the distinction between alcohol’s blackouts and multiple personality’s memory gaps is often made only in retrospect, after multiple personality has been confirmed by other symptoms.

So with eighty more pages to read, I will be interested to see if there is anything else to suggest multiple personality. 

1. Jenny Jackson. Pineapple Street. Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, 2023.