03496cam a2200589 4500 1012799487 TxAuBib 20231020120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781635576733 1635576733 fed94999-3ed8-4694-85ae-78791ad9b6a5 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6312230 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Harding, Debora. Dancing with the Octopus [Libby] : A Memoir of a Crime. Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2020. Estrangement. dysfunctional family. childhood. rape. Midwestern. recovery. PTSD. kidnapping. Justice. child abduction. denial. trauma. strength. Race relations. survival. assault. memoir. Literary. patriarchal. gaslighting. reckoning. white men. father-daughter story. prison program. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 343MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 343MB. Biography & Autobiography. Family & Relationships. True Crime. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>For readers of <i>Educated</i> and <i>The Glass Castle,</i> 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 <i>Marie Claire</i>.</b> 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. Written with dark humor and the pacing of a thriller, <i>Dancing with the Octopus</i> is a literary tour de force and a groundbreaking narrative of reckoning, recovery, and the inexhaustible strength it takes to survive. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-10-19 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fed94999-3ed8-4694-85ae-78791ad9b6a5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=fed94999-3ed8-4694-85ae-78791ad9b6a5&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)