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He wins the reader over as much for what he doesn't do--take cheap shots at his characters--as for the breadth of his observations.
But what separates documentary from fiction is that real people are often more complicated, and more conflicted, than finished characters--as Brenda proved to be more (or, at least, other) than the sum of her parts.