![]() But rather than point fingers or give a moralizing depiction of a taboo story, she instead shows us the intimate spaces and the blurred lines of the relationship-as seen by a girl who doesn’t fully believe herself to be the victim of an older man’s predation.Įxcavation begins with the first day of the eighth grade, painting a picture of a girl whose conjured disaffection goes hand in hand with her teenage blasé attitude. Now married, and with a child of her own, Ortiz digs into her past so as to fight her demons, revealing with utter honesty and unrestrained prose the vicious details of her ordeal. ![]() Now a registered sex offender, “Jeff Ivers” (as he is called in the memoir) is described in both flattering and disturbing terms, Ortiz’s attraction to him having as much to do with his charisma as with the danger his love promises. In the 1980s and ‘90s, Ortiz was seduced by her 8 th-grade English teacher who instigated a relationship that would last five years. ![]() In her memoir, Excavation (Future Tense Books 244 pages ), Wendy Ortiz looks to her journal entries and memories to piece together a narrative of her adolescent traumas. ![]()
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