The virtual Allison had taken up residence in the real Avram, thus destabilizing his real-life family—although Slouka claims Avram was “secure in his sexual identity,”10 at least offline. What does this account of assumed identities have to do with postmodernism? The strange yarn about Allison and Janine illustrates and reinforces a postmodernist theme. Taking on various identities in varying circumstances is sanctioned by this new movement, for it exemplifies the death of belief in the unitary