She Told Them How it Worked

By Amber Woods

(Photo of Virginia Roberts Giuffre)

I didn’t begin with Epstein.

I began with a problem.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre has two memoirs, describing the same life, but they refuse to sit still next to each other.

One is jagged—memory spilling out where it shouldn’t, details clinging to the wrong moments, language that feels too close to the bone to …