A Stolen Life
About this book
In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen.
For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse.
For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name. I became a mother and was forced to be a sister. For eighteen years I survived an impossible situation.
On August 26, 2009, I took my name back. My name is Jaycee Lee Dugard. I don’t think of myself as a victim. I survived.
A Stolen Life is my story—in my own words, in my own way, exactly as I remember it.
Subjects
- biography
- california, biography
- kidnapping
- kidnapping, 1991
- kidnapping victims
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nyt:e-book_nonfiction=2011-07-09
- seihanzai
- sexually abused children
- victims of crimes
- women, united states, biography
- yukai