The Officer's Daughter A Memoir of Family and Forgiveness
eAudio - 2021
""The Officer's Daughter is a masterpiece. More than that, it's the perfect book for our troubled time. Johnson has written the deepest, most emotionally resonant understanding of forgiveness and justice I have ever read.""—Darin Strauss, bestselling author of Half a LifeThe author reflects on a terrible tragedy that forever altered the fabric of her family in this remarkable memoir, a heart-wrenching story of love, violence, coming of age, secrets, justice, and forgiveness. When she was sixteen, Elle Johnson lived in Queens with her family; she dreamed of being best friends with her popular, cool cousin Karen from the Bronx. Coming from a family of black law enforcement officers, Elle felt that Karen would u...nderstand her in a way no one else could. Elle's father was a highly protective, at times overbearing, parole officer; her uncle,...
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File Size | 185 GB |
ISBN | 9780063011359 |
Release Date | 2/16/2021 |