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About The Other Side: A Memoir
Product Description Lacy Johnson's rich and poetic memoir, The Other Side, chronicles her brutal kidnapping and imprisonment at the hands of an ex-boyfriend, her dramatic escape, and her hard-fought struggle to recover. Lacy Johnson bangs on the glass doors of a sleepy local police station in the middle of the night. Her feet are bare; her body is bruised and bloody; U-bolts dangle from her wrists. She has escaped, but not unscathed. The Other Side is the haunting account of a first passionate and then abusive relationship; the events leading to Johnson’s kidnapping, rape, and imprisonment; her dramatic escape; and her hard-fought struggle to recover. At once thrilling, terrifying, harrowing, and hopeful, The Other Side offers more than just a true crime record. In language both stark and poetic, Johnson weaves together a richly personal narrative with police and FBI reports, psychological records, and neurological experiments, delivering a raw and unforgettable story of trauma and transformation. From Booklist Bad things have happened to Johnson, and she replays them here, sometimes in chronological order, sometimes not. She has lived through a lot—poor choices, wretched boyfriends and unsuitable husbands, pills, therapists—but mainly, kidnapping and rape by a man she once loved. Still, she persists. The men she engages with are not given names but titles (My Handsome Friend, The Man I Live With, My First Husband). So, too, is her family distantly identified (My Older Sister, etc.). Johnson focuses on how she felt, what happened, and what she saw. This is a grim, years-long ride as Johnson details her choices, her loss of feeling and initiative, her troubled dreams, her relentless acceptance of physical and sexual abuse, even as she works her way to graduate school. She has a story to tell, but the best question of the book, posed by her grandmother to My Boyfriend, is, Now tell me: what kind of man are you? It remains unanswered as Johnson moves back to the kidnapping, now 4 years past, now 13 years past. Johnson asks, Am I not endlessly circling? She is, but her obsessive, aloof, yet graphic self-portrait still aims for catharsis. --Eloise Kinney Review *The Other Side chosen as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award*The Other Side chosen as a finalist for an Edgar Award*Kirkus names The Other Side one of the best books of 2014*Chosen as a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick*Kirkus calls The Other Side a “modern classic"*The Houston Chronicle names The Other Side one of the 20 best books of 2014"Ferociously beautiful and courageous, Johnson’s intimate story sheds light on the perpetuation of violence against women."—Starred Kirkus"Johnson’s matter-of-fact retelling of the horrors that befell her is by turns poetic and journalistic but harrowing all the way through."—Starred Library Journal"This riveting narrative of a young woman's kidnapping and rape at the hands of a former boyfriend moves fluently between dissociation and healing."—Publisher's Weekly"After she ends their abusive relationship, Johnson's ex kidnaps, rapes, and imprisons her. The frankness and eloquence of Johnson's writing puts this true-crime memoir in a league of its own."—Marie Claire"The Other Side [is] written with both fury and restraint. The reader feels pulled onto a fast train, in a compartment with a narrator telling an intimate and terrifying tale."—Wall Street Journal“Her powerful new memoir, The Other Side, is about more than the crime. It’s about how complicated abusive relationships actually are. It’s about how we tell and re-tell the stories that shape our lives.”—The Houston Chronicle"The Other Side is neither flowery nor stale, never shy or gratuitous. Instead, its haunting beauty grips the reader from the opening line. Also of note, this is not a book whose readership can be defined by gender or role or experience. A wide audience will relate to Johnson's talk of tattoos and pharmaceuticals, overlooked as
