The moment is too important to skip over or to hold off. We’ll have to locate it in the chronological flow, probably three-quarters of the way through the memoir. But we can use other structural techniques to bring it back at the end. We can “play” the scene like a teaser or a flashback recurrently in Julia’s memory. It can haunt her, torment her. The entire last forty years of her life can be framed as a search for self-forgiveness, for self-understanding.
