A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard claims top best-seller spot
It has been nearly two years now since Jaycee Lee Dugard was discovered, and rescued, from the clutches of her kidnappers, the Garrido’s. Recently released is a book penned by Jaycee herself, in her own words and with her own unique style of writing, describing what she went through over the past eighteen years. Her book, A Stolen Life, has topped the non fiction best seller lists ever since its release in July 2011.
The book titled A Stolen Life was anticipated well before its date of publication because the heartfelt and endearing story of her discovery and rescue was widely broadcast on news programs around the globe. Millions of people wanted to learn more about this young woman who had been a very young girl when first kidnapped and had her life literally stolen away from her. Those precious growing up years can never be returned to her now, and the normal life she had enjoyed was suddenly and violently taken away when Phillip and his wife, Nancy Garrido used a stun gun to disable the young lady, then wrapping her in a blanket, they whisked her off. Eleven year old Jaycee had been waiting for her school bus at a bus stop the morning of June 10th, 1991 and no one could anticipate the horror and degrading sexual atrocities that she had to face throughout the next eighteen years of her young life. She even gave birth to two daughters of her own during her long ordeal.
Jaycee Dugard now tells us she feels “liberated” and free after putting it all down in writing. She first felt blame for being taken but came to realize it was none of her fault because she had done absolutely nothing wrong, nothing she could have prevented or even imagined in her wildest dreams. Jaycee grew up in a normal home with a normal lifestyle in California’s South Lake Tahoe until the Garrido’s stole her away to their home in Antioch, California. Her book is somewhat of a cautionary and cathartic activity for Jaycee and will prove an educational warning for children everywhere.
