Tuesday, May 6, 2014

NonFiction Tuesday - Finding Me

Its a heart-wrenching matter, but its been going on since the beginning of time. And there is no easy way to talk about it. However Human trafficking is a subject we should all be aware of. It could be happening in our own neighborhood. Here comes a book, on the anniversary of the horrifying Cleveland news story that gripped us all. Thankfully, this is a survivor's story.

Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their escape on May 6, 2013, made headlines around the world.

Barely out of her own tumultuous childhood, Michelle was estranged from her family and fighting for custody of her young son when she disappeared. Local police believed she had run away, so they removed her from the missing persons lists fifteen months after she vanished. Castro tormented her with these facts, reminding her that no one was looking for her, that the outside world had forgotten her. But Michelle would not be broken.

In Finding Me, Michelle will reveal the heartbreaking details of her story, including the thoughts and prayers that helped her find courage to endure her unimaginable circumstances and now build a life worth living. By sharing both her past and her efforts to create a future, Michelle becomes a voice for the voiceless and a powerful symbol of hope for the thousands of children and young adults who go missing every year.


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Hopefully, this news story will find many survivors too. We need to keep these school girls in our thoughts and prayers.

4 comments:

  1. Nice post, pretty photos!

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  2. This story was so heartbreaking - I imagine the book would be as well.

    xx

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  3. That is horrible. No one should have to feel so unloved.

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  4. I really want to read this, I feel so terrible for human-trafficking victims.

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