In the follow-up to her #1 bestselling memoir, A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own.
When Jaycee Dugard was eleven years old, she was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in South Lake Tahoe, California. She was missing for more than eighteen years, held captive by Philip and Nancy Garrido, and gave birth to two daughters during her imprisonment.
In A Stolen Life Jaycee told the story of her life from her abduction in 1991 through her reappearance in 2009. Freedom: My Book of Firsts is about everything that happened next.
“How do you rebuild a life?” Jaycee asks. In these pages, she describes the life she never thought she would live to see: from her first sight of her mother to her first time meeting her grownup sister, her first trip to the dentist to her daughters’ first day of school, her first taste of champagne to her first hangover, her first time behind the wheel to her first speeding ticket, and her first dance at a friend’s wedding to her first thoughts about the possibility of a future relationship.
This raw and inspiring book will remind you that there is, as Jaycee writes, “life after something tragic happens…Somehow, I still believe that we each hold the key to our own happiness and you have to grab it where you can in whatever form it might take.” Freedom is an awe-inspiring memoir about the power we all hold within ourselves.
- 272 pages
- English
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Fly Me to the Moon
- OMG! Out in Public!
- Whoâs That Girl on TV?
- âSMILEâ
- Cold Soup?
- A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes . . . When Youâre Missing
- Just Sing!
- âPuppy Loveâ
- âDream a Little Dreamâ
- Lesson Learned!
- Walk the Plank
- Donât Judge
- Confessions of an Imperfect Person (or Where the Heck Are the Minis?!)
- Addiction
- âOh So Prettyâ
- In Plain Sight
- Disgusted
- Barbies Are Good for the Soul
- Most Embarrassing Moment
- First Christmas
- That Time We Went to See Garth in Ireland
- Most Frustrating Moment
- Journey to a New Land
- Two Psychologists and a Survivor Walk into a Bar . . .
- Hope Is a Four-Letter Word
- Lil Sis
- Whereâs the Rage, Jaycee?
- Open Wide and Say AHHH!
- Through Thick and Thin
- Now, Thatâs Grand!
- Baked Potatoes
- Pass the Cheese, Please
- My Inner Circle
- About Jaycee Dugard
- Copyright
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