The story Krakauer could have told, and that he could have told better than everyone else, is how it was that he came to be "so uninformed" about rape and why it took the personal experience of women close to him to make him take an interest in the subject. If his "ignorance was inexcusable, and it made me ashamed," where did it come from? If it's so powerful and cathartic for rape survivors to tell their stories, what does it mean that the "many of my acquaintances, and even several women in my own family, (who) had been sexually assaulted by men they trusted," never told Krakauer what had happened to them?