“Even worse. Making vivid, interesting characters out of those girls and women? Mythologizing and novelizing their suffering? No.” The man gives an exaggerated sigh. “I know this argument, and I don’t buy it. If everyone felt the way you do, the world would remain ignorant about things it has every good reason to know. Writers have to bear witness, it’s their vocation. Some would say the writer has no higher calling than to bear witness to injustice and suffering.”
