Dancing with the Octopus - The Telling of a True Crime

Author(s): Debora Harding

Biography

A fierce, strikingly redemptive exploration of the impact of traumatic violence on victim, perpetrator and society. One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-point, thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and left to die. But what if this wasn't the most traumatic, defining event in her childhood? Undertaking a radical project, Debora Harding dexterously shifts between the past and present to unravel her story. From the immediate aftermath to the possibility of restorative justice twenty years later, Dancing with the Octopus lays bare the social and political forces that act upon us after the experience of serious crime. A vivid, sly and intimate portrait of one family's disintegration, this is a darkly humorous and ground-breaking narrative of reckoning and recovery.

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General Fields

  • : 9781788165167
  • : Profile Books Limited
  • : Profile Books Ltd
  • : 0.526
  • : June 2020
  • : {"length"=>["21.6"], "width"=>["13.5"], "units"=>["Centimeters"]}
  • : November 2020
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Debora Harding
  • : 384
  • : English
  • : 2010
  • : Hardback