03037cam a2200337 4500 525598016 TxAuBib 20211105120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781635576139 163557613X B0865RZRN4 Amazon 1643287f-3ab2-4ec8-969e-135590f6006a OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5387635 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Harding, Debora. Dancing with the Octopus [Libby] : A Memoir of a Crime. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3931kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. 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><br /> 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.<br /> 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.<br /> 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.<br /> 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.<br /> 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.<br />. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1643287f-3ab2-4ec8-969e-135590f6006a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1643287f-3ab2-4ec8-969e-135590f6006a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=1643287f-3ab2-4ec8-969e-135590f6006a&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)