I wasn’t sure that it was elegant, or even grammatically sound, but I did know it was just how my narrator—who spends the novel negotiating issues of privacy and voyeurism—would want the book to end. Grammatical or not, it was my last line, and I was sticking to it.
Over at The Millions, Chloe Benjamin ask six writers how they found the perfect last sentence for their novels.
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