Book : Dancing With The Octopus A Memoir Of A Crime -...

-Titulo Original : Dancing With The Octopus A Memoir Of A Crime

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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About the Author Debora Harding grew up in the Midwest and then spent three decades immersed in Washington politics. While cycling across America she met her English husband. She is mother of two children and is now a full-time writer and activist. She splits her time between the United States and Great Britain. 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 wasnt 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 familys disintegration in the 1970s Midwest.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. Review “Bravely looks at her family trauma and the hope of restorative justice-combining wit, drama, and deep self-reflection to investigate the aftershocks of a devastating crime.” Oxygen, “The Best True Crime Books Of 2020 For Holiday Gifting”“This moving story of grit and resilience will resonate with readers long after the final page is turned.” Publishers Weekly, Starred Review“A gripping memoir, Dancing With the Octopus is both a heartbreaking reconstruction of a crime and a powerful account of healing from trauma.” Electric Lit, Most Anticipated Debuts of the Second Half of 2020“Hardings writing is exquisite, often funny… This book is personal, deeply and bravely thoughtful, and creatively expressed. . . . it can serve as a tool for the politically engaged.” New York Journal of Books“Darkly humorous . . . Harding draws a complex web of interlinked experiences to show how suffering can set up shop for good in a family and a town. Dancing With the Octopus joins a host of recent true crime memoirs dedicated to grounding crimes in a wider framework of social and familial contexts.” CrimeReads “Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2020”“Dancing with the Octopus is a brave and authentic picture of the tailwinds of trauma, the limits of human forgiveness and what it takes to maintain hope in a world bent on breaking us. Highly readable, and deeply moving.” Rachel Louise Snyder, award-winning author of NO VISIBLE BRUISES“An incredible book … Debora writes with a lightness of touch that belies the heavy lifting in a work of such magnitude and power.” Philip Selway of Radiohead on Twitter“This is a fantastic memoir . . . beautifully written and its an excellent example of traumas long hold on people. . . . An incredible look at depression and parenthood and forgiveness. . . . It is excellent.” Bookriots All the Books Podcast“A gripping account of one womans confrontation with the terror and heartbreak of her past. Harding combines true crime and family saga to illustrate the aftershocks of trauma, and the courage, tenderness, and humor that recovery requir