International Students Guide: Autobiography/Memoir

The author has woven her own story about having been molested as a child, by a family member, alongside a true crime story that she researched as a young law student, about a man, who was a pedophile, involved in a murder. The stories are very intense in which they could make this book hard to read. Many might become engrossed in the reactions of the narrator’s family as well as that of the town. The book is beyond a memoir. It combines true crime, with the author’s imagined scenarios of what went on in various courtroom settings during the trials and how she follows this man’s crime as well as the victim to understand what was done to her, and ultimately to free herself of her haunting past. Brave and revealing, this is a memoir that will allow one look into a world that one would otherwise not know.