A compelling and hard-hitting memoir which follows one woman's search, 20 years after the attack, for answers about her rapist. oanna Connors was thirty years old when she was raped at knifepoint by a stranger. After this horrifying trauma, she became afraid of everything β flying, driving, travelli
I Will Find You: A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her
β Scribed by Connors, Joanna
- Book ID
- 108939830
- Publisher
- Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 154 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780802122605
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β¦ Synopsis
βThis is it. My rape. I knew it was coming. Every woman knows. And now here it is. My turn."
When Joanna Connors was thirty years old on assignment for the Cleveland Plain Dealer to review a play at a college theater, she was held at knife point and raped by a stranger who had grown up five miles away from her. Once her assailant was caught and sentenced, Joanna never spoke of the trauma again, until 21 years later when her daughter was about to go to college. She resolved then to tell her children about her own rape so they could learn and protect themselves, and she began to realize that the man who assaulted her was one of the formative people in her life.
Setting out to uncover the story of her attacker, Connors embarked on a journey to find out who he was, where he came from, who his friends were and what his life was like. What she discovers stretches beyond one violent man's story and back into her own, interweaving a narrative about...
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**_" This is it. My rape. I knew it was coming. Every woman knows. And now here it is. My turn."**_ When Joanna Connors was thirty years old on assignment for the _Cleveland Plain Dealer_ to review a play at a college theater, she was held at knife point and raped by a stranger who had grown up fi