The Butterfly Garden

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This novel is structured as a series of interview sessions between a teen girl who had been held captive and the two FBI agents assigned to find out what she can tell them about her situation. There are no chapter divisions. The story is instead divided into three long parts. Each part is notated only by a Roman numeral. A graphic design makes clear splits between the sections of the novel where interaction occurs between Inara and the men who are interviewing her and the parts where Inara tells her story uninterrupted in the first-person.