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Stolen by Elizabeth Gilpin
5.0
"I had been right to fear the dark. The faceless man came for me after all, only in real life he has a faceless partner. They kidnapped me from my own home in the middle of the night, and no one stood in their way."
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~THOUGHTS~
An absolutely harrowing memoir! Fifteen year old Gilpin an honor student and promising soccer player who suffers from undiagnosed depression and starts acting out and drinking excessively. Her parents decided to put her in a behavioral modification program. Gilpin is forcibly taken in the night from her home and dropped off at a camp in the woods. Three months later she is transferred to boarding school that is more like a torturous prison than a school. Gilpin and the other students go through exercises deemed therapeutic but in reality were mentally abusive and traumatizing. At seventeen she is persuasive enough to be labeled rehabilitated and released.
This book had me reeling! Accounts of going through the troubled teen industry isn't something that gets written about enough considering it's prevalence. Gilpin does a great job recounting her experience and giving voice to others who went through similar experiences.
As gripping as this was to read it was also very heartbreaking in many ways. As a parent, I could never put my children into something like this, no matter how hard they were to manage. Gilpin's honesty of what she went through hits really hard. She talks about the friends she lost to addiction and suicide as well. This memoir really shows the lengths of what the human spirit can endure and recover from. My god, definitely recommend this one!
Thank You to @grandcentralpub for sending me this one in exchange for an honest review.
For more of my book content check out instagram.com/bookalong
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~THOUGHTS~
An absolutely harrowing memoir! Fifteen year old Gilpin an honor student and promising soccer player who suffers from undiagnosed depression and starts acting out and drinking excessively. Her parents decided to put her in a behavioral modification program. Gilpin is forcibly taken in the night from her home and dropped off at a camp in the woods. Three months later she is transferred to boarding school that is more like a torturous prison than a school. Gilpin and the other students go through exercises deemed therapeutic but in reality were mentally abusive and traumatizing. At seventeen she is persuasive enough to be labeled rehabilitated and released.
This book had me reeling! Accounts of going through the troubled teen industry isn't something that gets written about enough considering it's prevalence. Gilpin does a great job recounting her experience and giving voice to others who went through similar experiences.
As gripping as this was to read it was also very heartbreaking in many ways. As a parent, I could never put my children into something like this, no matter how hard they were to manage. Gilpin's honesty of what she went through hits really hard. She talks about the friends she lost to addiction and suicide as well. This memoir really shows the lengths of what the human spirit can endure and recover from. My god, definitely recommend this one!
Thank You to @grandcentralpub for sending me this one in exchange for an honest review.
For more of my book content check out instagram.com/bookalong