Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings

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Overview

The #1 New York Times Bestseller and inspirational memoir by Michelle Knight, whose survival story gripped the world and continues to inspire and offer hope.

Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their escape on May 6, 2013, made headlines around the world.

Barely out of her own tumultuous childhood, Michelle was estranged from her family and fighting for custody of her young son when she disappeared. Local police believed she had run away, so they removed her from the missing persons lists fifteen months after she vanished. Castro tormented her with these facts, reminding her that no one was looking for her, that the outside world had forgotten her. But Michelle would not be broken.

In Finding Me, Michelle will reveal the heartbreaking details of her story, including the thoughts and prayers that helped her find courage to endure her unimaginable circumstances and now build a life worth living. By sharing both her past and her efforts to create a future, Michelle becomes a voice for the voiceless and a powerful symbol of hope for the thousands of children and young adults who go missing every year.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781602862791
Publisher: Hachette Books
Publication date: 03/10/2015
Edition description: First Trade Paper Edition, domestic
Pages: 280
Sales rank: 72,413
Product dimensions: 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Michelle Knight, now known as Lily Rose Lee, is an author, activist, speaker, and a survivor living in Cleveland, Ohio. Lily is passionate about inspiring others and now spends most of her time helping animals and volunteering at local shelters, creating art, and advocating for change to ensure others are safe from the experience she has overcome.

Table of Contents

Preface ix

1 Found & Lost 1

2 My Family 5

3 Under the Bridge 23

4 On the Run 37

5 Expecting 45

6 Huggy Bear 51

7 Losing Joey 57

8 Vanished 67

9 Trapped 79

10 The Dungeon 87

11 Lobo 101

12 The Backyard 113

13 TV & a Shower 119

14 The Second Girl 127

15 Pregnant 133

16 The Third Girl 139

17 My New Little Sister 147

18 Voices 157

19 The Van 165

20 Hard Labor 173

21 Light of the House 181

22 Juju & Chelsea 189

23 Mustard 195

24 Broken 207

25 Found 215

26 Starting Over 227

Afterword: A Life Reclaimed 241

Acknowledgments 251

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