When Jeff Comes Home

✍ Scribed by Atkins, Catherine

• Book ID: 108696470
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 144 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0399233660

✦ Synopsis

Jeff Hart was thirteen when he was kidnapped at knife-point and held prisoner. After three years of physical, mental, and sexual abuse, Jeff returns home and must face his family, friends, and school and the widespread assumption and news reports that he willingly engaged in a sexual relationship with the man who kidnapped him. Narrated in first person by 16-year-old Jeff, he tries rebuilding his life in the aftermath of horrendous abuse. Faced with the taunts of "fag" from schoolmates and friends, and the anger and shame he feels from giving in sexually to his kidnapper, Jeff believes he is "broken" and will never be accepted or liked again. Told from the boys point of view, When Jeff Comes Home describes the social and psychological impact that the return of a kidnapped boy has upon his family, friends, and most of all upon the boy himself. Author, Catherine Atkins, states her inspiration for the novel When Jeff Comes Home was drawn from the actual kidnapping case of Steven Staynor.