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    I Will Find You: In Search of the Man Who Raped Me

    By Joanna Connors

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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

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateApr 5, 2016
    ISBN9780007521876
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    I Will Find You: In Search of the Man Who Raped Me
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    Joanna Connors

    Joanna Connors is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Glamour, and Redbook, amongst others. Her journalism awards include the 2008 Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism from Northwestern University, and Columbia University’s Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma for her series of pieces in the Cleveland Plain-Dealer about her rape and eventual decision to track down the man who did it.

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    • 5/5
      The author, a reporter, uses her significant investigating skills to uncover the story behind her rape that had occurred approximately 20 years ago. The trigger for this desire came when her daughter started looking at college campuses because she was raped on a college campus trying to meet people for an interview. This is an insightful look at how this crime changed her immediately, as well as how it affected all of her relationships – including her husband, children, family, friends and even strangers – for the next two decades. Trying to take control of her life once again, Connors visited places where her deceased rapist had lived, talking with people in prisons and with those who knew her rapist through different periods of his life. In the end, Connors is a survivor, but she paid dearly for that status.
    • 5/5
      The author of this book, Joanna Connors, courageously writes about the rape that profoundly affected her life. Twenty years after the crime, she tracks down her rapist's family (he himself is dead) to interview them and try to understand how he came to do what he did and to gain peace and closure in her own life. This account is extremely moving and brought tears to my eyes several times. Highly recommended.
    • 4/5
      A book that should be read by everyone. Sadly, this experience is not anything you can get over, even by searching and coming to terms with the other half---the rapist. In that sense the book is a plea for society as a whole to come to grips with this right at the beginning, with the birth of a child and the growth of that child into a functioning, caring part of society.
    • 4/5
      Very difficult to read about the author's experiences, but her honesty is compelling, as is her attempt to learn about and describe where her rapist came from. A sad story, but I admire that while suffering her own pain she can feel others' as well.