Dancing With The Octopus
Debora Harding was 14 years old when she was kidnapped at knifepoint, thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and abandoned. But what if this wasn't the most traumatic and defining event in her life?
Dancing with the Octopus is unlike any other memoir you've ever read. It's the story of a true crime, but it's so much more. It's a memoir about family and the harm that those who are supposed to love you the most can cause. It's about a daughter and her emotionally unavailable father. It's a story about coming of age. It's a moving story about forgiveness, restorative justice, and figuring out why people do bad things. It's also extremely well written.
Debora Harding deftly shifts between the past and present to unravel her story in a daring project. Dancing with the Octopus exposes the social and political forces that act on us after the experience of serious crime, from the immediate aftermath to the possibility of restorative justice twenty years later. This darkly humorous and ground-breaking story of reckoning and recovery is a vivid, sly, and intimate portrait of one family's disintegration.
Author: Deborah Harding
Link to buy: https://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Octopus-Telling-True-Crime/dp/1788165179/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0
