But you'd be forgiven for doing that-not least by Ritter, who told me, "I’m happy to draw comparisons to Jessica Jones or to other great messy women on screen because we need it"-because Abby is part of a storied tradition of complicated women whose psychic damage sometimes cripples them, and sometimes fuels their desire to do good in a bad world.įor Abby, that means going back to her hometown of Barrens, Indiana, a decade after she thought she'd left it firmly in her rearview mirror.
It's almost impossible to read Krysten Ritter's debut novel, Bonfire, and not imagine the story's protagonist, Abby Williams, as looking like Ritter and sounding like Ritter and even dressing like Ritter-or, at least, looking and sounding and dressing like Jessica Jones, the character Ritter inhabits so incredibly in the eponymous Netflix series.
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