Debora Harding's Dancing with the Octopus - 3 sets of 10 for reading groups
We are thrilled to be offering paperback copies of Debora Harding’s true crime memoir, Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime, to reading groups.
The book contains reading group questions and we’d love feedback by email and for the groups to share their thoughts and images on social media. Please get in touch by email if you’re interested!
More about the book:
A fierce, strikingly redemptive exploration of the impact of traumatic violence on victim, perpetrator and society
SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION
‘Extraordinary’ Kate Mosse
‘Electric’ Lemn Sissay
‘Searing’ Julia Samuel
One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-point, thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and left to die.
But what if this wasn’t the most traumatic, defining event in her childhood?
Undertaking a radical project, Debora Harding dexterously shifts between the past and present to unravel her story. From the immediate aftermath to the possibility of restorative justice twenty years later, Dancing with the Octopus lays bare the social and political forces that act upon us after the experience of serious crime. A vivid, sly and intimate portrait of one family’s disintegration, this is a darkly humorous and ground-breaking narrative of reckoning and recovery.
Downloads and links
- More info about the book https://profilebooks.com/work/dancing-with-the-octopus/
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