Jaycee Dugard suffered unspeakable horror for 18 years. Kidnapped by a pedophile at age eleven and
kept for 18 years, Dugard bore two children and came to depend upon her captor
all while striving to maintain her “self” and remember her “real” family, especially
her mother.
Her memoir tells of her heroism and fortitude in the face of
unrelenting adversity. Often the voice
of that eleven year old is heard; often the voice of a struggling 19 year old
woman and mother is heard. She, at
times, voices a maturity earned through pain. She struggles to shield her
children from the press even while acknowledging the impossibility of that
task. She struggles to heal herself and
rejoin the “normal’ world.
It is impossible to read this memoir without suffering with Jaycee.
It is also impossible to justify a critical review of this book. 5 of 5 stars
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