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PublisherGallery Books

ISBN-101668036223

ISBN-139781668036228

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Book TitleThis Happened to Me : a Reckoning

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2025

TopicPersonal Memoirs, Abuse / Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse & Harassment

GenreFamily & Relationships, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorKate Price

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight16.9 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

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Reviews"Kate Price's journey is sometimes dark and often harrowing, but in This Happened to Me she confronts her demons with fierce, eloquent enlightenment. Price not only rises above the hurt and hate, she uses her hard-won insights to shine a light for others." -Jeannette Walls, New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle "Out of the ravages of a childhood that would have left almost anyone scarred to the point of life-long silence comes this gorgeous, blistering, monumental achievement of a book. Kate Price has found her voice, and what a voice it is. Read it and weep, and rejoice at the power of the human spirit to transcend." -Dani Shapiro , New York Times bestselling author of Inheritance " This Happened to Me is a brilliant and moving account of a journey of healing from the confusion and betrayal of intrafamiliar sexual abuse. The complex and arduous labor of learning to accept knowing what you know and feeling what you feel, despite its devastating impact on your sense of belonging and community. Kate Price's book reminds me of the greatest lesson from my old teacher: 'you have only one textbook, and that is your patients.'" -Bessel can der Kolk, New York Times bestselling author of The Body Keeps the Score "A gripping story, told with grace and compassion, about surviving horrific childhood abuse that went on for years with the complicity of a small town community. In daring to speak about the unspeakable, Kate Price challenges all of us to face the reality of child sex trafficking and to put a stop to it." -Judith Herman, psychiatrist and author of Trauma and Recovery

SynopsisA Washington Post Noteworthy Book (of July and August); a Book Riot Best Nonfiction Book of Summer; WBUR (Boston Public Radio) Twelve Books to Read This Summer "Price not only rises above the hurt and hate, she uses her hard-won insights to shine a light for others." --Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author For readers of Educated , The Glass Castle, and Know My Name comes a powerful new memoir that is a remarkable testament of survival and resilience. At once harrowing and exquisite, haunting and inspiring, Kate Price's story will leave readers with a profound assurance in the power to heal. Kate Price grew up in a small mill town in central Pennsylvania with her sister and parents in northern Appalachia. At the insistence of her mother, and through her academic accomplishments, Price escaped the unbroken cycles of poverty, violence, addiction, mental illness, and abuse that had plagued her family for generations. She started a new life in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in pursuit of her master's and PhD. But despite having left this dark world behind, it still kept a firm grip on her. Overcome with unexplainable grief and sadness and having sustained a series of hazy flashbacks accompanied by a "chilling of her blood and uncomfortable feeling in her bones," Price sought out Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, a trauma specialist to help heal her constant emotional pain through EMDR therapy. He went on to write the bestselling book, The Body Keeps the Score , which features Price's story, as the two worked together to find out about her past. When Price, whose brain had been protecting her by shutting out these horrific memories, felt safe enough, she along with van der Kolk as her guide, discovered what that darkness that lay within her was. Her father had abused and trafficked her as a child. Price grappled with what had been revealed. Did this really happen to her? How could a parent do this to a child? A dedicated researcher and academic, she knew she needed confirmation, proof that what she had remembered had happened. And so began a 10-year quest alongside a journalist, to prove what Price knew to be her truth. With many trips back to the hometown she thought she had left forever, the two eventually found the hard-earned evidence Price had been searching for. In this exquisitely rendered, transformative memoir, Price describes how she broke free of that which had defined her childhood and went on to create a purpose-driven life and family, on her own terms. Eventually returning to the same Appalachian community to use her education and advocacy to help ensure children are given the attention, protection, and services that she never received. From victim to advocate, from fearful child to empowered adult, and from despair to triumph, This Happened to Me is a story of astonishing resilience and breathtaking determination., A Washington Post Noteworthy Book (of July and August); a Book Riot Best Nonfiction Book of Summer; WBUR (Boston Public Radio) Twelve Books to Read This Summer "Price not onl y rises above the hurt and hate, she uses her hard-won insights to shine a light for others." --Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author For readers of Educated , The Glass Castle, and Know My Name comes a powerful new memoir that is a remarkable testament of survival and resilience. At once harrowing and exquisite, haunting and inspiring, Kate Price's story will leave readers with a profound assurance in the power to heal. Kate Price grew up in a small mill town in central Pennsylvania with her sister and parents in northern Appalachia. At the insistence of her mother, and through her academic accomplishments, Price escaped the unbroken cycles of poverty, violence, addiction, mental illness, and abuse that had plagued her family for generations. She started a new life in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in pursuit of her master's and PhD. But despite having left this dark world behind, it still kept a firm grip on her. Overcome with unexplainable grief and sadness and having sustained a series of hazy flashbacks accompanied by a "chilling of her blood and uncomfortable feeling in her bones," Price sought out Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, a trauma specialist to help heal her constant emotional pain through EMDR therapy. He went on to write the bestselling book, The Body Keeps the Score , which features Price's story, as the two worked together to find out about her past. When Price, whose brain had been protecting her by shutting out these horrific memories, felt safe enough, she along with van der Kolk as her guide, discovered what that darkness that lay within her was. Her father had abused and trafficked her as a child. Price grappled with what had been revealed. Did this really happen to her? How could a parent do this to a child? A dedicated researcher and academic, she knew she needed confirmation, proof that what she had remembered had happened. And so began a 10-year quest alongside a journalist, to prove what Price knew to be her truth. With many trips back to the hometown she thought she had left forever, the two eventually found the hard-earned evidence Price had been searching for. In this exquisitely rendered, transformative memoir, Price describes how she broke free of that which had defined her childhood and went on to create a purpose-driven life and family, on her own terms. Eventually returning to the same Appalachian community to use her education and advocacy to help ensure children are given the attention, protection, and services that she never received. From victim to advocate, from fearful child to empowered adult, and from despair to triumph, This Happened to Me is a story of astonishing resilience and breathtaking determination.