It won the damn Pulitzer prize for fiction in 1991. It's King Lear for a new epoch.
"So all I have is the knowledge that I saw! That I saw without being afraid and without turning away, and that I didn't forgive the unforgivable. Forgiveness is a reflex for when you cant stand what you know. I resisted that reflex. That's my sole, solitary lonely accomplishment."I am not worthy.
