A revelatory memoir about a young woman whose life was stolen when she was kidnapped in 1991 and remained an object of captivity for 18 years.
An instant #1 New York Times bestseller--Jaycee Dugard's raw and powerful memoir, her own story of being kidnapped in 1991 and held captive for more than eighteen years.
In the summer of June of 1991, I was a normal kid.
I did normal things.
I had friends and a mother that loved me.
I was just like you.
Until the day my life was stolen.
For eighteen years I was a prisoner.
I was an object for someone to use and abuse.
For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name.
I became a mother and was forced to be a sister.
For eighteen years I survived an impossible situation.
On August 26, 2009, I took my name back.
My name is Jaycee Lee Dugard.
I don't think of myself as a victim, I simply survived an intolerable situation.
A Stolen Life is my story--in my own words, in my own way, exactly as I remember it.