Freedom, Jaycee Dugard
Freedom, Jaycee Dugard
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Freedom
My Book of Firsts

Bestseller

Author: Jaycee Dugard

Narrator: Jaycee Dugard

Unabridged: 5 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/12/2016


Synopsis

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.

About Jaycee Dugard

Jaycee Dugard is the author of the memoir A Stolen Life, which tells the story of her kidnapping and eighteen years of captivity. Her second book is Freedom: My Book of Firsts.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Alisha Marie on July 18, 2016

I feel so bad giving Freedom only two stars, but I just can't help it. I read A Stolen Life a few years ago and remember being awed by Jaycee and her resilience as well as being heartbroken for everything she had been through. With Freedom, I didn't feel much, mainly because there's not much depth i......more

Goodreads review by Jonetta on August 18, 2016

It's been about six years since Jaycee Dugard was rescued from her insidious abductors and captors. While she devotes some of the story to her method of recovery, this is primarily a journal of experiences she found moving or had a memorable or lasting impact. I found most of the examples pretty mun......more

Goodreads review by ♥Milica♥ on May 15, 2024

I read Jaycee's first book two years ago and originally wasn't planning on reading this one, but it's always been at the back of my mind as "unfinished" so I decided to give it a try anyway. It's exactly what it sounds like, her book of firsts. Some little things we take for granted were like a whole......more

Goodreads review by Kelly on August 19, 2016

You can't really blame a woman who was kidnapped at 11 for writing like an 11-year-old, but you can blame the editors for letting it go out like this.......more

Goodreads review by Karen on July 15, 2016

How do you rate a book like this? I bought it because I admire the spirit of the author, and I wanted to support her for her survival of what most of us would consider an impossible situation--being kidnapped, tortured, and raped over an 18 year period, resulting in the birth of two daughters. But h......more