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Author:
Debora Harding
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
Date:
September 22, 2020
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. But her troubles were far from over. Denial became the family coping strategy offered by her fun-loving, conflicted father and her cruelly resentful mother.
What The Reviewers Say
...brave and beautifully written.
Some memoirs recount riveting stories. Others are notable for their masterful storytelling. Debora Harding’s Dancing With the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime accomplishes both.
This book is personal, deeply and bravely thoughtful, and creatively expressed. Yet it can serve as a tool for the politically engaged.
... a book that is both a healing and a reckoning.
