For Slate, Amanda Hess examines yet another first-person confessional: sexual assault victim Jenny Kutner’s essay “The Other Side of the Story,” published in Texas Monthly.
The power of Kutner’s story is that it lends insight into a particular type of victimization—the kind that happens when the victim doesn’t see herself as one.
Kutner’s essay demonstrates how, in addition to the life lessons she unwittingly learned at the hand of her predatory teacher, she has also learned to write, and write well, somewhere along the way.
