{"product_id":"9781635577846","title":"Dancing with the Octopus: A Memoir of a Crime","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor readers of \u003ci\u003eEducated \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Glass Castle,\u003c\/i\u003e a harrowing, redemptive and profoundly inspiring memoir of childhood trauma and its long reach into adulthood, named one of the Best True Crime Books by \u003ci\u003eMarie Claire.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne Omaha winter day in November 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knifepoint from a church parking lot. She was thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and then left to die as an ice storm descended over the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDebora survived. She identified her attacker to the police and then returned to her teenage life in a dysfunctional home where she was expected to simply move on. Denial became the family coping strategy offered by her fun-loving, conflicted father and her cruelly resentful mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt wasn't until decades later - when beset by the symptoms of PTSD- that Debora undertook a radical project: she met her childhood attacker face-to-face in prison and began to reconsider and reimagine his complex story. This was a quest for the truth that would threaten the lie at the heart of her family and with it the sacred bond that once saved her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDexterously shifting between the past and present, Debora Harding untangles the incident of her kidnapping and escape from unexpected angles, offering a vivid, intimate portrait of one family's disintegration in the 1970s Midwest.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with dark humor and the pacing of a thriller, \u003ci\u003eDancing with the Octopus \u003c\/i\u003eis a literary tour de force and a groundbreaking narrative of reckoning, recovery, and the inexhaustible strength it takes to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064521146608,"sku":"9781635577846","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781635577846_p0.jpg?v=1763683106","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781635577846","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}