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043 _an-us-ok
049 _aNFGA
092 _aErvin, K.
_bE73
100 1 _aErvin, Kristine S.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aRabbit heart :
_ba mother's murder, a daughter's story /
_cKristine S. Ervin.
250 _aFirst Counterpoint edition.
264 1 _aBerkeley, California :
_bCounterpoint,
_c2024.
264 4 _c©2024
300 _a288 pages ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 _a"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"--
_cProvided by publisher.
600 1 0 _aErvin, Kristine S.
650 0 _aMurder
_zOklahoma
_vCase studies.
650 0 _aMurder victims' families
_zOklahoma.
650 0 _aChildren of murder victims
_zOklahoma.
655 7 _aBiographies.
_2lcgft
_9870
655 7 _aCase studies.
_2lcgft
_9266460
655 7 _aTrue crime stories.
_2lcgft
_99557
942 _2ddc
_cBOOK
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