Show bookĪ Writer Writes - A Memoir Stephen BirminghamĪ memoir by the New York Times–bestselling author and longtime chronicler of America’s wealthy elite. I Will Find You is a “deeply humane and harrowing” memoir, as well as a brave and timely consideration of race, class, education, and the families that shape who we become (Boston Globe). What she discovers stretches beyond one violent man’s story and back into her own, interweaving a narrative about strength and survival with one about rape culture and violence in America. She embarked on a journey to find out who he was, who his friends were, and what his life was like. Resolving to tell her children about her rape, Connors began to realize that the man who assaulted her was one of the most formative people in her life.
until her daughter was about to go to college. Once her assailant was caught and sentenced, Joanna never spoke of the trauma again . . . Joanna Connors was thirty years old and on assignment for the Cleveland Plain Dealer to review a college theater production when she was held at knifepoint and raped by a stranger who had grown up five miles away from her. The journalist’s “brutally affecting powerful” memoir of her quest to uncover the life of the man who raped her twenty-one years earlier (Guardian, UK). From her coming of age in the Red Guard to her recruitment into Madame Mao's burgeoning industry of propaganda movies, Red Azalea explores the secret sensuality of a repressive society with elegance and honesty. It is a small masterpiece' VOGUEīorn into a devoutly Maoist family in 1950s Shanghai and forced to work on a communal farm from the age of seventeen, Anchee Min found herself in an alienating and hostile political climate, where her only friendships were perilous and intense.īoth candid and touching, this compelling memoir documents her isolation and illicit love against the backdrop of China's Cultural Revolution. Summary The acclaimed memoir from the bestselling author of Empress Orchid But please don't worry, you still have more than 500,000 other books you can enjoy! Red Azalea Anchee Min We are sorry! The publisher (or author) gave us the instruction to take down this book from our catalog.
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