Nothing Man (2020)

A survivor’s true-crime memoir is being read by the man responsible for the crimes it describes. That is the opening arrangement, not a late revelation. Howard uses it to place Eve Black’s effort to reclaim her story beside Jim Doyle’s anger at losing control of his own. The book-within-a-book structure gives attention, recognition and the ownership of a public account real stakes. Expect the distressing history of violence against a family, not a detached narrative puzzle.