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Until she was eight, Leisha Joseph lived a happy life in a suburban world surrounded by loving brothers and a caring mother. Her world began to fall apart in her eighth year, when her father died and her mother's mental health began to decline. In the years leading up to high school, Joseph was mentally abused by her mother and physically abused by her mother's boyfriends. When her mother, in a fit of rage, burned down the house and was subsequently placed in a mental institution, Leisha felt abandoned and alone. Attending a Protestant church with a friend, she discovered that the love of God and her newfound religion helped her to overcome her loneliness. In a moment of disillusionment, however, she gave up religion and succumbed to the attractions of drugs until a near fatal overdose drove her back to God. As she began to grow in her new commitment to God, she was showered with many blessings: an engagement to a deeply committed Christian man; participation as a finalist in the Miss Teen USA pageant; graduation with honors from high school. Suddenly, her world was shattered anew, when she was raped in a mall parking lot by a serial rapist. According to Joseph, God intervened to give her the strength to survive her attack as well as to confront her attacker in court. After the attack, Joseph prayed for her attacker and eventually gave him a Bible to demonstrate the depth of God's love for him. Joseph's dramatic and harrowing memoir reveals a faithful and courageous woman seeking to act always according to God's guidance.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
woman-survivor who found herself and God in the painful aftermath of rape. Joseph enjoyed a storybook midwestern childhood until she was eight, when her loving father was killed in an engineering accident. His death threw the family in a quandary: Josephs mother sank into a decade-long battle with manic-depression, and Joseph and her three older brothers were left to fend for themselves. But by age 18, the young woman and her family had turned their lives around. Joseph became a model student and committed evangelical Christian, and was elected homecoming queen. Yet her world was about to be torn asunder once again. Shortly after her high school graduation and before her marriage, Joseph was raped at gunpoint in a mall parking lot by a serial rapist who had disabled her car. Joseph again employed her faith to emerge triumphant from this dark, painful time, encouraging the rapists other victims to file charges against him. After his conviction, she continued to struggle with trauma from the rape. Her memoir speaks honestly of her fears of sexual relations with her new husband and the deep anger she had welling inside her, ready to be unleashed on the people she loved the most. Joseph found healing by speaking out about her experience, first to local church groups and eventually to a national audience on the 700 Club. She also testified in another court case (her attacker attempted to rape another woman soon after his speedy parole), even finding the courage to present the rapist with a monogrammed, leather-bound Bible, which she prayed he would read. Moving and very frank, Josephs story will offer courage to many women, Christian and otherwise, who have been victims of rape. (Author tour) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Until she was eight, Leisha Joseph lived a happy life in a suburban world surrounded by loving brothers and a caring mother. Her world began to fall apart in her eighth year, when her father died and her mother's mental health began to decline. In the years leading up to high school, Joseph was mentally abused by her mother and physically abused by her mother's boyfriends. When her mother, in a fit of rage, burned down the house and was subsequently placed in a mental institution, Leisha felt abandoned and alone. Attending a Protestant church with a friend, she discovered that the love of God and her newfound religion helped her to overcome her loneliness. In a moment of disillusionment, however, she gave up religion and succumbed to the attractions of drugs until a near fatal overdose drove her back to God. As she began to grow in her new commitment to God, she was showered with many blessings: an engagement to a deeply committed Christian man; participation as a finalist in the Miss Teen USA pageant; graduation with honors from high school. Suddenly, her world was shattered anew, when she was raped in a mall parking lot by a serial rapist. According to Joseph, God intervened to give her the strength to survive her attack as well as to confront her attacker in court. After the attack, Joseph prayed for her attacker and eventually gave him a Bible to demonstrate the depth of God's love for him. Joseph's dramatic and harrowing memoir reveals a faithful and courageous woman seeking to act always according to God's guidance.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
woman-survivor who found herself and God in the painful aftermath of rape. Joseph enjoyed a storybook midwestern childhood until she was eight, when her loving father was killed in an engineering accident. His death threw the family in a quandary: Josephs mother sank into a decade-long battle with manic-depression, and Joseph and her three older brothers were left to fend for themselves. But by age 18, the young woman and her family had turned their lives around. Joseph became a model student and committed evangelical Christian, and was elected homecoming queen. Yet her world was about to be torn asunder once again. Shortly after her high school graduation and before her marriage, Joseph was raped at gunpoint in a mall parking lot by a serial rapist who had disabled her car. Joseph again employed her faith to emerge triumphant from this dark, painful time, encouraging the rapists other victims to file charges against him. After his conviction, she continued to struggle with trauma from the rape. Her memoir speaks honestly of her fears of sexual relations with her new husband and the deep anger she had welling inside her, ready to be unleashed on the people she loved the most. Joseph found healing by speaking out about her experience, first to local church groups and eventually to a national audience on the 700 Club. She also testified in another court case (her attacker attempted to rape another woman soon after his speedy parole), even finding the courage to present the rapist with a monogrammed, leather-bound Bible, which she prayed he would read. Moving and very frank, Josephs story will offer courage to many women, Christian and otherwise, who have been victims of rape. (Author tour) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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