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Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime

Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime

Harding, Debora

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ISBN10: 1635577845
ISBN13: 9781635577846
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: Oct 5 2021
Pages: 384
Weight: 0.85
Height: 1.20 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

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 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.

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