A frame tale is retold from the perspective of this character's sister in the first novella of John Barth's Chimera. This character's father attempts to dissuade this character from a risky decision with a story about an ass 
A frame tale is retold from the perspective of this character's sister in the first novella of John Barth's Chimera. This character's father attempts to dissuade this character from a risky decision with a story about an ass and a bull. With a younger sibling, this character concocts a scheme to avoid being killed by a man who was cuckolded by a slave before meeting a woman with 98 rings. This character tells of a man who mixes up the names of grains and gets (*) trapped in a cave, since he forgets the phrase "Open sesame." This character's narrations end at dawn with cliffhangers, so her husband breaks his habit of killing his wives every night in order to hear them all out. For 10 points, name this woman who tells stories to King Sharyar in The Arabian Nights.
A frame tale is retold from the perspective of this character's sister in the first novella of John Barth's Chimera.
Scheherezade [or Shahrazad] &lt;WA, OtherLit&gt;