Autofiction: Thin line between private lives and great literature

This week, I found myself reflecting on the relationship between fiction and reality. In most works of fiction, the copyright page invariably comes with a disclaimer that the characters and events in the work are purely the products of the author’s imagination, even when the content sometimes eerily mirrors reality in the same fashion that many go to church, listen to a sermon and cannot shake off the feeling that the preacher had been stalking them the whole week and was today bent on pulling the mask off their private lives.