A stolen life

By Jaycee Lee Dugard

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

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.