How do readers approach traumatic literature when an author issues a moral command that we judge and witness catastrophic events at a historical distance? We are confronted as readers since traumatic literature hits us from the outset; it implicates us in the content and delivery of the story and the arguments it delivers. Reading and being are their own kind of wound, a secondary wound that comes in carrying inside another’s story and allowing oneself to be affected by it, to live and act and attend because of its imprint and the fact of violence and brutality on the planet that humans inhabit and share. Writing is a form of call and response to human experience; reading is a form of listening to and with a writer and to those who appear in their stories.