Lila tells Joe about her past, and he accepts her, flaws and all, similar to Lawson’s idea. ImpactĪlthough mental illness is not the main theme of The Life We Bury, Lila’s mental illness serves as a bigger idea in the text: acceptance of one’s past. When she exposes all of this to Joe, she tells Joe she has issues, to which Joe replies, “I’m not afraid of issues”. He then tells her she was raped and took a year off from college, which she tells Joe earlier in the novel, because she was cutting herself, exposing mental illness. Lila then acted on the reputation she earned and earned the nickname “Nasty Nash”, Nash being her last name. She eventually opens up to Joe and tells him she earned a reputation of being promiscuous in high school after losing her virginity to a guy she really liked, who later spread rumors that she was “easy”. However, what seemed to be Lila uninterested in Joe was actually years of suffering Lila tried to hide.
Although Joe really develops a crush on Lila, Lila does not really seem to return his feelings. Interested in Carl’s case, Joe tries to solve the mystery of who killed Crystal Hagan alongside his neighbor love interest and later girlfriend Lila. When Joe interviews Carl, Carl maintains he was falsely accused of raping and murdering Crystal Hagan, who was fourteen years old at the time of her death. The novel The Life We Bury follows the protagonist, Joe Talbert as interviews an alleged rapist and murderer named Carl Iverson for his autobiography class.
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