This book hits painfully close to home if you had a certain kind of narcissistic parent and you learned to compensate by hiding things and trying to appear perf

This book hits painfully close to home if you had a certain kind of narcissistic parent and you learned to compensate by hiding things and trying to appear perfect, or just something you’re not. And I think this was the book that gave me the idea that all good spy fiction is really about the human drama of concealing truth from other people, and conversely the attempt to break through that and form real connection.