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A hard-hitting memoir about a woman's search to understand the man
who raped her Joanna Connors was thirty years old when she was
raped at knifepoint by a stranger. Many years later she realised
she had to confront the fear that had ruled her life ever since
that day. She needed, finally, to understand. So she went in search
of her rapist's story, 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. 'More chilling than
a horror film and more thought-provoking than an HBO doc'
Cosmopolitan 'Brutally affecting' Guardian 'Riveting' Mail on
Sunday
"This is it. My rape. I knew it was coming. Every woman knows. And
now here it is. My turn." When Joanna Connors was thirty years old
on assignment for the Cleveland Plain Dealer to review a play at a
college theater, she was held at knife point and raped by a
stranger who had grown up five miles away from her. Once her
assailant was caught and sentenced, Joanna never spoke of the
trauma again, until 21 years later when her daughter was about to
go to college. She resolved then to tell her children about her own
rape so they could learn and protect themselves, and she began to
realize that the man who assaulted her was one of the formative
people in her life. Setting out to uncover the story of her
attacker, Connors embarked on a journey to find out who he was,
where he came from, who his friends were and what his life was
like. What she discovers stretches beyond one violent man's story
and back into her own, interweaving a narrative about strength and
survival with one about rape culture and violence in America. I
Will Find You is a brave, timely consideration of race, class,
education and the families that shape who we become, by a reporter
and a survivor.
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