...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.

Harding’s compelling memoir introduces readers to her emotionally fragile family and shares how being kidnapped and brutally raped at age 14 affected her life.

A powerful account of sexual assault and decades of lingering trauma.

In this intense debut memoir, Harding writes of the aftermath of a traumatic experience as a teenager.