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The #1 New York Times Bestseller and inspirational memoir by Michelle Knight, whose survival story gripped the world and continues to inspire and offer hope.

Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. In 2003 Amanda Berry joined her in captivity, followed by Gina DeJesus in 2004. Their escape on May 6, 2013, made headlines around the world.

Barely out of her own tumultuous childhood, Michelle was estranged from her family and fighting for custody of her young son when she disappeared. Local police believed she had run away, so they removed her from the missing persons lists fifteen months after she vanished. Castro tormented her with these facts, reminding her that no one was looking for her, that the outside world had forgotten her. But Michelle would not be broken.

In Finding Me, Michelle will reveal the heartbreaking details of her story, including the thoughts and prayers that helped her find courage to endure her unimaginable circumstances and now build a life worth living. By sharing both her past and her efforts to create a future, Michelle becomes a voice for the voiceless and a powerful symbol of hope for the thousands of children and young adults who go missing every year.
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“In the 12 years of doing the ‘Dr. Phil' show, no one has changed me like Michelle Knight and her story of survival.” – Dr. Phil McGraw

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Michelle Knight, now known as Lily Rose Lee, is an author, activist, speaker, and a survivor living in Cleveland, Ohio. Lily is passionate about inspiring others and now spends most of her time helping animals and volunteering at local shelters, creating art, and advocating for change to ensure others are safe from the experience she has overcome.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hachette Books (May 6, 2014)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 280 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781602862562
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    Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a local school bus driver named Ariel Castro at the age of 21. For more than a decade afterward, she endured unimaginable torture at the hand of her abductor. Barely out of her own tumultuous childhood, Michelle was estranged from her family and fighting for custody of her young son when she disappeared. Local police believed she had run away, so they removed her from the missing persons lists fifteen months after she vanished. Castro tormented her with these facts, reminding her that no one was looking for her, that the outside world had forgotten her. But Michelle would not be broken.

    Over a decade later, Michelle Knight is free and currently working toward a culinary career in Cleveland. She loves to sing and draw and is enjoying her freedom and her journey to a new life.

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    MICHELLE BURFORD is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and a founding editor of O, The Oprah Magazine. She is a Harvard-trained journalist whose work has taken her to more than 35 countries on six continents. A native of Phoenix, Michelle now resides in New York City. Read more about her creations at www.MichelleBurford.com.

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Customers find the book to be well-written, easy to read, and spellbinding. They describe the story as compelling and extraordinary. Readers find the content inspiring, courageous, and thought-provoking. They also describe the author as amazing, strong, and brave. In addition, they praise her compassion and generosity. Opinions are mixed on the heartbreaking story.

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1,818 customers mention "Readability"1,590 positive228 negative

Customers find the book well-written, easy to read, and spellbinding. They appreciate the clear and pleasant spoken words. Readers also mention the book contains just enough grammatical mistakes to reflect a nurtured voice.

"...She was STRONG. She was thoughtful. She was smart. She was pierced. When I saw all the piercings on her face I thought "You go girl."..." Read more

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912 customers mention "Story quality"878 positive34 negative

Customers find the story well-told, heart-wrenching, compelling, and extraordinary. They describe it as a biographical masterpiece. Readers also mention the details are shocking and the author manages a great balance of horror, fear, pain, and humiliation without being overly overdone.

"...She was captivating. A tiny pixie-faced woman who is hard as nails, but not in the way you would expect someone to be hard. She was STRONG...." Read more

"...This was a truly horrifying and emotionally jarring book. It’s also a portrait of the human condition...." Read more

"...I found it absolutely heart wrenching that her aching for her son is on every page, it is my fervent hope that one day she and her son can meet..." Read more

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Customers find the content inspiring, courageous, and thought-provoking. They say the human spirit is stronger and can endure such pain. Readers also appreciate the message of hope in despair.

"...She was STRONG. She was thoughtful. She was smart. She was pierced. When I saw all the piercings on her face I thought "You go girl."..." Read more

"...Reading what Michelle held onto emotionally was incredibly inspiring...." Read more

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Customers find the book amazing, inspiring, and impressive. They also appreciate the strength of her loving spirit, character, and will to live. Readers mention that the book demonstrates her magnificent sweetness and ethics.

"...She was STRONG. She was thoughtful. She was smart. She was pierced. When I saw all the piercings on her face I thought "You go girl."..." Read more

"...She is an amazing, amazing woman with the most astonishing resilience. She has my complete respect and awe and respect and boundless admiration." Read more

"...She is a courageous and strong woman. If there’s one take-away message Knight has for readers, it’s the following:..." Read more

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"...a powerhouse, a definite force of will, strength, love and somehow, forgiveness!!..." Read more

"...I was impressed with how gracious and composed she was. I couldn't imagine that after the ordeal she had been through...." Read more

"...I am just amazed at her strength and compassion. If you want to read a book that will break your heart and then make you whole again, read this book" Read more

"What a survivor! TheThe human spirit is phenomenal and this lady was strong.I was so glad she made it through this ordeal" Read more

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Customers find the book informative, not too graphic, and mature. They also describe the woman as beautiful, strong, compassionate, and loved. Readers mention the story is told in tasteful, honest prose.

"...She also looks quite clean in her school pics,no dirty hair etc...." Read more

"...The book is graphic and well written and sadly I think Michelle may have toned it down and didn't even show us how horrible it had really gotten in..." Read more

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"...and I hope she continues to stand as she does now, so strong, so beautiful and with an amazing joyous smile on her face...." Read more

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Customers find the pacing of the tale very well done. They say the book flows easily and is extremely moving. Readers also mention the flow is maintained throughout.

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"Even though (for me) it was a fast read, I really liked Michelle's story. We knew so much about Amanda and Gina, but we hadn't heard about Michelle...." Read more

"...Well, I am happy to say that this book was NOT boring, it was incredible. I read all of the times and this book is by far one of my favorites...." Read more

"...The pacing of the tale is very well done also, and although she often got bored in her 11 years of captivity, I never got bored on one page of her..." Read more

336 customers mention "Heartbreaking story"206 positive130 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the heartbreaking story. Some mention it's sad, grave, and terrible. Readers also say the book is easy to read while the words tell a horrific story.

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5.0 out of 5 stars My New Hero
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When I, like the rest of the world, heard the details on the news about Cleveland's house of horrors, I was shocked and outraged. At the time, most of the media was all over Amanda Berry and her child. Of Gina and Michelle, just a picture of each of them, almost as a second thought. Not surprising. Amanda was the pretty blonde. And she had a child. Not much said about the fact that Michelle Knight had a bunch of children. But hers were murdered by Ariel Castro in utero.

When Michelle appeared on the Dr. Phil show, it was my first real glimpse into Michelle's life and experiences. She was captivating. A tiny pixie-faced woman who is hard as nails, but not in the way you would expect someone to be hard. She was STRONG. She was thoughtful. She was smart. She was pierced. When I saw all the piercings on her face I thought "You go girl." It was a way for her to reclaim ownership of her own body. It said "Don't mess with me." One thing I found especially interesting about her two appearances on Dr. Phil was how thoughtful and smart she is. Really smart. I just wanted to reach through the TV screen and hug her as she spoke calmly and clearly about her experience. One which I would imagine might drive others into madness or make them give up on life. On people. And while she seemed so composed, I wondered if the was still a little stoic, a little numb. For her sake, I hope she has, and will continue to have, lots of support, hugs, and tears. I really hope she was taken the step of letting out all the screams still inside her. For herself. For her babies.

When I first heard about her book, from Dr. Phil I think but don't remember for sure, my first thought was that, no matter how awful it was for her, she deserved the chance to tell her story. And we ought to listen. It didn't take me more than a few seconds to decide that I would read it. At the very least, I thought, I can help her by buying her book and recommending it to others so that she would get very rich. And give a final F.U. to Ariel Castro.

But I don't need to recommend this book because I want Michelle Knight to have a comfortable life. The book is good. Very good. It's well-written and very readable. Simple, honest and heartfelt. Despite every page revealing ever more horrors, I found I wanted to know more. Read more. I cried with her over her lost babies and the lost years. And I laughed and smiled at how, despite living in pure Hell, Michelle kept her spunk. Fought back. Survived. And now she thrives, while "the dude" (she never says his name) is now broken, beaten, and rotting in a grave somewhere where no one cares, a pervert to the last.

As she does in her book, kudos to Dr. Phil giving Michelle a platform to start revealing her story. And very high fives to Michelle for surviving and triumphing over evil.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Best "Kidnapped" Memoir I've Read
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This is the fourth memoir from a kidnapping victim that I’ve read (the other ones were from Jaycee Dugard, Elizabeth Smart, and Natascha Kampusch). This was the best written one out of all of them. Michelle Knight collaborated with another writer to write her memoir, and you can tell. The writing is very well-organized, well-paced, and descriptive. It absolutely looks like the information was provided by Michelle Knight, and then “massaged” by a professional to make the writing as engaging as possible.

This book is also different from the stories from other kidnapping victims in that an awful lot of the book discusses Michelle’s life before the kidnapping, and I just have to say that Michelle had about the most horrible childhood I can imagine. There were some passages that were so horrifying that I had to stop and re-read them, because one time through just wasn’t enough to process the shock of what I was reading. For example, Michelle mentioned at one point that when she first got her period, she was unaware that she was menstruating because she’d been bleeding from there since she was five. These are not sentences you can just skim over! At another point, she talks about running away and sleeping in a garbage can under an overpass, freezing and starving, because she’d rather be homeless and penniless than stay in her home environment.

And then came the chapter on her son. Let this be a warning to you: this book made me cry. I don’t mean tear up, I mean gasp and sob. No other book in my entire adult life has wrecked me emotionally the way this did. After a childhood in which her parents ignored her, her uncle raped her, and her classmates at school bullied her, Michelle had a baby and finally got to experience love. Despite her poverty and living situation, she worked furiously to give her son the best home she possibly could. Then one day, as she was out looking for a job, her mother’s boyfriend hurt her son, and Child Protective Services took her son away from her.

Like I said, this is the fourth memoir on kidnapping that I’ve read, so I have read a lot of horrifying stuff. I’ve read about rape, beating, psychological torture and manipulation. But man. Imagine if despite your very best efforts, you were unable to provide a safe home environment for your child. Imagine if that child was taken from you, and for all its agony, deep-down, you knew that the government was right and you couldn’t provide a safe home environment for your child. And imagine that this was the same home environment that you were raised in and were still stuck in.

Well, soon after this Michelle was kidnapped and brought into Ariel Castro’s home. Even in his home, she was bullied. She was treated the worst of the three victims. Where Amanda was allowed to keep her baby, Michelle was starved and beaten and forced to miscarry six times. While Gina and Amanda were examined at the hospital and released quickly thereafter, Michelle had to stay at the hospital for days because the injuries Ariel inflicted were so bad, in some cases irreversible.

Reading what Michelle held onto emotionally was incredibly inspiring. When she was little, she tried to be strong to take care of her younger brothers. In captivity, she stayed strong in hopes of one day seeing her son and assuring him that she loved him and hadn’t abandoned him. She stayed strong to encourage Gina, her “roommate” in the captivity, to stay strong as well. Even after a lifetime of abuse and mistreatment, it was the hope of encouraging and supporting other people that enabled her to stay strong. That is just incredibly amazing and inspiring.

This was a truly horrifying and emotionally jarring book. It’s also a portrait of the human condition. You see what horrible behavior some human beings are capable of, but also what heroic and good-hearted behavior other people are capable of. It opens your eyes to the world.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Bellissimo
Reviewed in Italy on October 16, 2022
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Incredibilmente non avevo mai sentito parlare di questo fatto di cronaca. Poi quest'estate ho visto uno speciale sul 9 (davvero ben fatto) e ne sono rimasta scioccata. Tutte le storie mi hanno colpito, mi hanno fatta stare male, ma Michelle mi ha colpito per la sua incredibile forza. Ho scoperto che aveva scritto dei libri e ho comprato subito il primo. É un pugno nello stomaco, ma é anche un libro di speranza, di coraggio, ti sprona a non arrenderti mai. Grazie Michelle ❤️ (anzi Lily Rose, ti seguo anche sui social, ma non sapendo bene l'inglese, non ti ho ancora scritto, ma avrei voluto farlo dal primo momento! E vorrei anche abbracciarti) Non sapendo bene l'inglese, l'ho letto tutto con la traduzione fornita da kindle, é assurdo che non sia stato tradotto.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing insight into an evil, dark world...
Reviewed in Canada on March 13, 2016
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It was amazing to me that Michelle had the strength to write this book, to show the world her soul so openly after forcefully remaining closed off for so many years.
Michelle has a great writing style, and her personal optimism in the face of so many different types of adversity - before, during and after her imprisonment - is absolutely inspiring.

Reading this book let's you look inside the horrible secrets of Michelle's hidden life, but also points you toward questions of your own, within your life and yourself. I found myself challenging some aspects of my own troubles (we all have them), wondering if & how I too can find the strength of character and will within myself - like Michelle so clearly manages to do despite the unthinkable portion of her life - to forgive, to find purpose, to move forward with grace and understanding as she has done.

Michelle's incredible story of survival is truly inspirational. While this is not a self-help book, it is a Master Class on surviving, living better, achieving, and perseverance. In those ways, I found this book both moving and helpful when looking at my own life.

When an author manages to get you to relate to her, especially when your stories are wildly different, you know you've found something wonderful.

Thank you Amanda, for sharing your innate, undeniable forces of strength, will and goodness with the world. You are already helping people, the way you were meant to do. I hope you find your soul overflowing with music and not knowing that you now not only have a voice, but one of the clearest, loudest and purest voices I've ever had the privilege of hearing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Lição de vida
Reviewed in Brazil on August 19, 2014
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É impressionante a capacidade do ser humano em se adaptar às mais duras condições de existência e suportar os piores sofrimentos. Qual a origem de toda essa força? Encontrar um sentido para a vida. Durante os anos em que Michelle ficou em cativeiro, sempre buscou sentido para a sua vida; no fim das contas, suportou as maiores atrocidades até enfim reconquistar sua liberdade e poder apreciar a vida intensamente. É uma lição de vida.
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Cecilia
5.0 out of 5 stars Muy fácil de leer
Reviewed in Spain on October 6, 2014
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Mi nivel de inglés no es muy alto, y sin embargo ha resultado facilísima su lectura. Es un relato estremecedor.
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Lady Bird
5.0 out of 5 stars A powerful memoir
Reviewed in France on June 29, 2014
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I was frightened to start reading Michelle’s book but by the time I finished going through all the pages, the “dude” had become irrelevant. The horror he inspired me was completely overshadowed by the deep admiration, hope and love I felt for this incredibly courageous woman.
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