`More chilling than a horror film and more thought provoking than an HBO doc ...I Will Find You is at once hard to read and even harder to put down' CosmopolitanThe powerful, unflinching and deeply humane story of a journalist's quest to uncover the life of the man who raped her twenty-one years before Joanna Conrs was thirty years old when she was raped at knifepoint by a stranger.After this horrifying trauma, she became afraid of everything - flying, driving, travelling in a car while someone else drove. She had children, but hovered over them constantly, terrified about what might happen to them as well. Then, when her daughter was sixteen, Joanna began to confront the fear that had ruled her life ever since that day, and decided she needed, finally, to understand.In an act of breathtaking humanity and pioneering journalistic courage, she went in search of the story of her own rapist, determined to find out who he was, where he came from, what his life was like - and what leads a person to do something as destructive as what he did to her.The result of her investigation is I Will Find You, a shocking, moving memoir and a brave, timely consideration of poverty, race, class, education - and how life shapes who we become.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Fourth Estate Ltd, Harpercollins Publishers
ISBN-10
0008181829
ISBN-13
9780008181826
eBay Product ID (ePID)
221694041
Product Key Features
Author
Joanna Connors
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Topic
True Crime
Genre
True Crime
Dimensions
Weight
400g
Height
222mm
Width
141mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
London
Spine
26mm
Author Biography
Joanna Connors is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Glamour, and Redbook, amongst others. Her journalism awards include the 2008 Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism from Northwestern University, and Columbia University's Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma for her series of pieces in the Cleveland Plain-Dealer about her rape and eventual decision to track down the man who did it.