One July afternoon in 2020, I called Dr. Judith Herman to discuss the new book she was working on, which I was representing as her literary agent. Truth and Repair was the sequel to her landmark Trauma and Recovery —I didn’t represent her in 1992, I was seven—and it sought to answer a question that picked up where the earlier book left off: What does justice look like for survivors of sexual violence? As our conversation wound down, Judy mentioned an email she’d recently received from a woman named Sarah Super. Super and her nonprofit, Break the Silence, were creating a memorial to survivors in one of Minneapolis’s parks. Since Trauma and Recovery had been such an inspiration to her, Super wanted to know if she could engrave a line from it in stone. “Which quote?” I asked. “The one about how all the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing,” Judy said. “While the victim demands action, engagement, and remembering.” Right then, I decided I’d go to Minneapolis.…