![]() She also alludes to a later sexual assault by someone she looked to as a protector and admired. In the afterword, Bunjevac reveals her own nightmarish account of a friend leading her into a trap with a sexual predator that she barely escaped from when she was 15. ![]() What was this other tale? It’s not revealed, other than that the first storyteller was reminded of it by “ the words you speak so well.” What could possibly bring to mind such a horrible scenario, a story where trust is broken and the innocent are harmed? The answer is a similar kind of story, and I would argue that in an elliptical fashion, the first story is Bunjevac’s own story. On the first page, it is revealed that the first storyteller spins the story in response to a story they were just told by the second storyteller. There are two unseen, unnamed storytellers, one of whom tells the tale of Bezimena to their curious friend. ![]()
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