Here, she addresses other traumatic chapters out of her past: Not one, but two attempted sexual assaults at the hands of older men. (The title means "nameless" in many Slavic languages.") Bunjevac is no stranger to psychological complexity, having explored her feelings about her violent father in 2014's bestselling Fatherland. That's Nina Bunjevac's contention in Bezimena, her challenging and disturbing new graphic novel. It's almost as if what we think we want isn't what we want at all - as if our real desires are unknowable, perhaps even necessarily so. The answer, it turns out, is that you freeze: You inter yourself inside a million static selfies. Take the Kardashians, a group of people whose only function is to demonstrate what you do when you get everything you ever wanted.
And yet for those who do attain these prizes, there's still no exalted state of perfect happiness. Naturally, we want money, love, a hundred thousand Instagram followers.
What do you want? The question haunts us all - but why? It's not as if the answer doesn't seem clear enough. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Bezimena Author Nina Bunjevac
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