Book description
A raw and powerful memoir of Jaycee Lee Dugard's own story of being kidnapped as an 11-year-old and held captive for over 18 years
On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California.
It was the lastā¦
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This memoir is both haunting and oddly inspirational.
On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California. It was the last her family saw of her for over eighteen years. In 2009 an investigation discovered her living in a tent behind her kidnapperās house.
I love this memoir for a whole lot of reasons, but in large part because thereās not a trace of self-pity in her accountādespite her having had so much of her life āstolenā from herāand because of her determination to find faith inā¦
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