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Sto caricando le informazioni... Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crimedi Debora Harding
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Debora was a child raised by a cold, possibly sociopathic but definitely alcoholic, mother. Looking for love, belonging, and acceptance, Debora finds solace in her church. This is where she finds herself, in her church parking lot just near her junior high school, one cold, snowy day, when she is abducted. It's just before Thanksgiving in 1978, in Omaha Nebraska, and life for Debora will never be the same. Her cold and dysfunctional parents expect her to carry on as usual, but she begins to experience PTSD from her abduction and sexual assault. Working through her trauma, Debora must come to terms with her childhood, the abduction and assault, and the fallout within her family from these occurrences. It is a story of strength, survival, and healing. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"For readers of Educated and The Glass Castle, a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood. 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 wasn'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 complex story. This was a quest for the truth that would threaten the lie at the heart of her family and with it the sacred bond that once saved her. Dexterously shifting between the past and present, Debora Harding untangles the incident of her kidnapping and escape from unexpected angles, offering a vivid, intimate portrait of one family's disintegration in the 1970s Midwest, a rusted landscape where the loss of white male power can flare into unspeakable violence. Written with dark humor and the pacing of a thriller, Dancing with the Octopus is a literary tour de force and a groundbreaking narrative of reckoning, recovery, and the inexhaustible strength it takes to survive"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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