Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime 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. - Julia Samuel. - Lemn Sissay Searing. - Kate Mosse Electric.
A vivid, sly and intimate portrait of one family\'s disintegration, this is a darkly humorous and ground-breaking narrative of reckoning and recovery Extraordinary.
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.
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.
Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime 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
