I Will Find You: A Reporter Investigates the Life of the Man Who Raped Her
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When Joanna Connors was thirty years old on assignment for the Cleveland Plain Dealer to review a play at a college theater, she was held at knife point and raped by a stranger who had grown up five miles away from her. Once her assailant was caught and sentenced, Joanna never spoke of the trauma again, until 21 years later when her daughter was about to go to college. She resolved then to tell her children about her own rape so they could learn and protect themselves, and she began to realize that the man who assaulted her was one of the formative people in her life.
Setting out to uncover the story of her attacker, Connors embarked on a journey to find out who he was, where he came from, who his friends were and what his life was like. What she discovers stretches beyond one violent man’s story and back into her own, interweaving a narrative about strength and survival with one about rape culture and violence in America.
I Will Find You is a brave, timely consideration of race, class, education and the families that shape who we become, by a reporter and a survivor.
Joanna Connors
Joanna Connors is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Glamour, and Redbook, amongst others. Her journalism awards include the 2008 Medill Medal for Courage in Journalism from Northwestern University, and Columbia University’s Dart Award for Excellence in Coverage of Trauma for her series of pieces in the Cleveland Plain-Dealer about her rape and eventual decision to track down the man who did it.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The author, a reporter, uses her significant investigating skills to uncover the story behind her rape that had occurred approximately 20 years ago. The trigger for this desire came when her daughter started looking at college campuses because she was raped on a college campus trying to meet people for an interview. This is an insightful look at how this crime changed her immediately, as well as how it affected all of her relationships – including her husband, children, family, friends and even strangers – for the next two decades. Trying to take control of her life once again, Connors visited places where her deceased rapist had lived, talking with people in prisons and with those who knew her rapist through different periods of his life. In the end, Connors is a survivor, but she paid dearly for that status.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The author of this book, Joanna Connors, courageously writes about the rape that profoundly affected her life. Twenty years after the crime, she tracks down her rapist's family (he himself is dead) to interview them and try to understand how he came to do what he did and to gain peace and closure in her own life. This account is extremely moving and brought tears to my eyes several times. Highly recommended.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very difficult to read about the author's experiences, but her honesty is compelling, as is her attempt to learn about and describe where her rapist came from. A sad story, but I admire that while suffering her own pain she can feel others' as well.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A book that should be read by everyone. Sadly, this experience is not anything you can get over, even by searching and coming to terms with the other half---the rapist. In that sense the book is a plea for society as a whole to come to grips with this right at the beginning, with the birth of a child and the growth of that child into a functioning, caring part of society.