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What Happened to Paula - On the Death of an American Girl (Hardcover)
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What Happened to Paula - On the Death of an American Girl (Hardcover)
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July 1970. Eighteen-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling left her house in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Four months later, her remains were discovered
just beyond the mouth of a culvert overlooking the Cedar River. Her
homicide has never been solved. Fifty years cold, Paula's case had
been mostly forgotten when journalist Katherine Dykstra began
looking for answers. A woman was dead. Why had no one been held
responsible? How could the powers that be, how could a community,
have given up? Tracing Paula's final days, Dykstra uncovers a girl
whose exultant personality was at odds with the Midwest norms of
the late 1960s. A girl who was caught between independence and
youthful naivete, between a love that defied racially segregated
Cedar Rapids and her complicated but enduring love for her mother,
and between a possible pregnancy and the freedoms that had been
promised by the women's liberation movement but that still had
little practical bearing on actual lives. The more Dykstra learned
about the circumstances of Paula's life, the more parallels she saw
in the lives of the women who knew Paula and the women in Paula's
family, in the lives of the women in Dykstra's own family, and even
in her own life. Captivating and expertly crafted from interviews
with Paula's family and friends, police reports, and on-the-scene
investigation, What Happened to Paula is part true crime story,
part memoir, a timely and powerful look at gender, autonomy, and
the cost of being a woman.
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