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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Other editions. Enlarge cover. Error rating book. Slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. 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 Amanda The 1 New York Times Bestseller and inspirational memoir by Michelle Knight, whose survival story gripped the world and continues to inspire and offer hope.
Their escape on May 6, , 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.
Get A Copy. Hardcover , pages. More Details Original Title. Cleveland, Ohio United States. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Finding Me , please sign up. I have been trying to get a copy even in PDF but i cant. This is one book i desperately want to read.
Michelle is such an inspiration to so many people. Such courage and strength she has. I need to read all the details about this book. I have a friend who has been a victim of kidnap and abuse who needs to be encouraged too. I wish its a true story that would change someones story as well.
Can this be read online? Pat It is very much a true story. It was all over the news when she and the other two young women were freed back in See all 7 questions about Finding Me…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. May 06, Rachael added it. Although I read this book I will be refraining from giving it a rating simply because I don't believe in judging a story like this one in 'stars' for how much I 'liked' it.
All I will say is that my heart broke a thousand times over for all four girls and much like Jaycee Dugard and Amanda Lindhout, their stories won't be leaving me. View all 20 comments. May 20, Diane rated it liked it Shelves: memoirs , true-crime.
This is a horrifying memoir. Michelle Knight had a traumatic childhood that included abuse, neglect and molestation, and she ran away from home when she was 15, during which time she slept under a bridge and briefly worked for a drug dealer. In , when she was 21, she was kidnapped by a Cleveland bus driver named Ariel Castro and then held captive in his house for almost 11 years. While she was imprisoned, she was frequently raped, beaten, starved and abused. During those hellish years, Castro This is a horrifying memoir.
During those hellish years, Castro kidnapped two other girls, Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, and also kept them chained in the house.
Michelle often begged Castro to let her go so she could see her son again on the day she was kidnapped, she had been on her way to court to see if she could regain custody of her son, Joey and Castro would often beat her if she started crying. With three kidnapped girls in the house, he said he wanted them all to be a happy family. This warped dude had kidnapped me, beat me, and raped me every day -- and he expected us to be a family?
I knew he wasn't just sick; he was a total psycho. He was living in his own fantasy world -- and I had to find a way out of it. By we were trained. After years of being in prison a crazy thing starts to happen: the locks move from off of your wrists and your ankles and up to your brain After you've been raped, humiliated, beaten, and chained for so long, you get into the habit of doing what you're told.
Your spirit starts crumbling. You start not to be able to imagine anything different. And it feels like your captor is all-seeing and all-knowing. She was able to call and police soon rescued Michelle and Gina. Castro was arrested and sentenced to life in prison. He talked about his porn addiction and how he was abused when he was a kid. I had heard it all before. Plenty of people get abused, but they don't go out and kidnap three women. I didn't feel sorry for him; I was still angry. It was ruled a suicide.
I wanted him to sit in his cell and rot away a little bit at a time for the rest of his life, just like he forced me to do. However, the book is so disturbing that parts of it made me ill.
I would not recommend it to sensitive readers. If you were upset by Emma Donoghue's novel "Room," about a 5-year-old boy and his mother who are held captive in a small shed, then you should avoid Michelle's memoir, because it is a real horror story. View all 11 comments. May 23, Dana Burgess rated it it was amazing. I was hesitant to pick this book up. I didn't really want to know what happened to any of the women in Ariel Castro's hereafter referred to as 'the dude' prison. I wasn't after some sensational, disgusting account of abuse and slavery.
The deciding factor for me was seeing an interview with author Michelle Knight. What a feisty, down to earth woman! So it was with trepidation I turned to the first page. Michelle starts her story from the beginning - her beginning. We are introduced to a little I was hesitant to pick this book up. We are introduced to a little girl living a life of sadness who, somehow discovers faith and hope and refuses to let either go. She is discreet in her description of the hell she ended up living in for 10 years, which I truly appreciated.
In telling her story, she manages to make the abuse understood without having to stoop to specifics. The real story here is how Michelle managed to hold on to her faith, her hope and her true self no matter what 'the dude' did to her. I am in no way saying she didn't have and doesn't continue to have issues to work out - who wouldn't!! But her attitude and fierce will to heal and be happy serve as inspiration to anyone who has ever been through hell; to anyone who has wondered 'why me'; to anyone who has dared to take their life for granted.
Michelle's story ends up being an uplifting reminder that we can not only survive, but bloom no matter what happens in our lives. Michelle Knight was a young single mother when she was kidnapped at the age of Now known as Lily Rose Lee, she is an author, activist, speaker, and a survivor living in Cleveland, Ohio with her husband.
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Their escape on May 6, , made headlines around the world. In Finding Me, Michelle reveals the heartbreaking details of her story, including the thoughts and prayers that helped her find courage to endure 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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