Rabbit heart : a mother's murder, a daughter's story /
Ervin, Kristine S.,
Rabbit heart : a mother's murder, a daughter's story / Kristine S. Ervin. - First Counterpoint edition. - 288 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
"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"--
9781640096370 164009637X
2023041428
Ervin, Kristine S.
Murder--Oklahoma--Case studies.
Murder victims' families--Oklahoma.
Children of murder victims--Oklahoma.
Biographies.
Case studies.
True crime stories.
Rabbit heart : a mother's murder, a daughter's story / Kristine S. Ervin. - First Counterpoint edition. - 288 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references.
"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"--
9781640096370 164009637X
2023041428
Ervin, Kristine S.
Murder--Oklahoma--Case studies.
Murder victims' families--Oklahoma.
Children of murder victims--Oklahoma.
Biographies.
Case studies.
True crime stories.