Bibliograph

Rabbit heart, a mother's murder, a daughter's story, Kristine S. Ervin

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Rabbit heart, a mother's murder, a daughter's story, Kristine S. Ervin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-288)

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Rabbit heart

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1427199091

Responsibility statement

Kristine S. Ervin

Sub title

a mother's murder, a daughter's story

Summary

"Kristine S. Ervin was just eight years old when her mother, Kathy Sue Engle, was abducted from an Oklahoma mall parking lot and violently murdered in an oil field. First, there was grief. Then the desire to know: what happened to her, what she felt in her last terrible moments, and all she was before these acts of violence defined her life. In her mother's absence, Ervin tries to reconstruct a woman she can never fully grasp--from her own memory, from letters she uncovers, and the stories of other family members. As more information about her mother's death comes to light, Ervin's drive to know her mother only intensifies, winding its way into her own fraught adolescence. In the process of both, she reckons with contradictions of what a woman is allowed to be--a self beyond the roles of wife, mother, daughter, victim--what a "true" victim is supposed to look like, and, finally, how complicated and elusive justice can be"--, Provided by publisher

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