I’m watching an interview with a real-life pedophile teacher whose story imitates, in great detail, the plot of Alissa Nutting ‘ s novel Tampa.
The pedophile would come to the kid’s house and flirt with him in the presence of his idiot father. Later, she’d have sex with the kid in the father’s house. She followed the boy when he went on vacation. They had sex in a parking lot. The first time she raped him was in the classroom, in the very first year she worked as a teacher. The pedophile is the same age as the one in the novel. The victim is the same age.
Plus, the real-life pedophile is speaking in the same dispassionate, monotonous, cold voice as the novel’s narrator.
I’ve got to take back everything I said about the novel in my review. It’s scarily true to life, as it turns out.
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