Dancing with the Octopus A Memoir of a Crime

Debora Harding

eBook - 2020

For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood, named one of the Best True Crime Books by Marie Claire.One Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended over the city.Debora survived. She identified her attacker to the police and then returned to her teenage life in a dysfunctional home where she was expected to simply move on. Denial became the family coping strategy offered by her fun-loving, conflicted father and her cruelly resentful mother.It w...asn't until decades later - when beset by the symptoms of PTSD- that Debora undertook a radical project: she met her childhood attacker face-to-face in prison and began to reconsider and reimagine his...

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Published
Bloomsbury Publishing
Language
English
Main Author
Debora Harding
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Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Kindle Book
ASINB0865RZRN4
Release Date9/22/2020
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9781635576139
Release Date9/22/2020