This is such a quotable quote, from your comment to @owasco:

Fiction for me is risk-taking, because it's personal. Science and history, well they speak for themselves. Fiction is more a lens into our own psyches.

And what a great insight on public exposure (which is the most I ever hoped I'd get for my sister's killers):

I think Maricia plans the worst punishment for her husband: public exposure. Usually this sort of neglect is private. Nobody acknowledges it. But public shaming....that will do it. Ditto for the cleric.