A stolen life

By Jaycee Lee Dugard

Subjects: Kidnapping, Sexually abused children, Victims of crimes, nyt:e-book_nonfiction=2011-07-09, Kidnapping victims, Biography, Kidnapping, 1991, California, biography, Women, united states, biography, New York Times bestseller, Yukai, Seihanzai, New York Times reviewed

Description: In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who 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 survived. A Stolen Life is my story—in my own words, in my own way, exactly as I remember it.