What can Marilynne Robinson’s novel about the drifter Lila tell us about narrative as a response to epistemic injustice? And how might we begin to understand this response in ethical terms? Robinson’s narratives are consistently engaging with the possible as opposed to the actual, and in doing so they effectively challenge our assumptions about truth and meaning. In this article, I examine how Lila through her unswerving distrust of knowledge in the form of certainties imposed on her by others constitutes such a challenge. Ultimately, I hope to show how Lila’s reticence underscores the ethical and epistemological implications of Robinson’s concern with narrative as a possible response to injustice.