TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ervin,Kristine S.
TI  - Rabbit Heart: a mother's murder, a daughter's story 
SN  - 9781640096370
AV  - HV6533.O6 E78 2024
U1  - 364.152/309766 23/eng/20231006
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Berkeley, California
PB  - Counterpoint
KW  - Ervin, Kristine S.
KW  - Murder
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Oklahoma
KW  - Murder victims' families
KW  - Children of murder victims
N1  - new book 2024 spring; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "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"--
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