It's especially difficult when the novel claims to be an autobiography a handful of times. At the beginning of the novel, there is a section within the poem “Tuesday” where Geryon's mother talks to a friend of Geryon on the phone. He says: “Gerione? Well, he's right here working on his autobiography” (34). In later chapters, the narrator also discusses the use of photographs to assemble Geryon's autobiography. These examples tease the mind because they allow the reader to entertain the idea that because the word “autobiography” is mentioned in the text, it is. The key here is to recognize that referring to a piece of writing, as an autobiography, does not make it so. Although Autobiography of Red interacts with concepts of autobiographical writing, it follows a more novel-like structure