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An inspiring and elegant memoir about the profound power of healing that is perfect for fans of Educated, The Glass Castle, and Know My Name. As a young child, the first complete sentence Kate Price ever uttered was ""Where's Daddy?"" Not because she wanted to find her father--but because she didn't want her father to find her. As a little girl growing up in Appalachia, her father was the hunter and she and her sister were the prey. Price knew he was a violent threat to her very existence, but she could not fully grasp the extent of his abuse. It wasn't until, at the urging of her mother, she finally escaped via her academic accomplishments and started a new life in Boston, that she discovered and reconciled the full truth of her dark past. Now, in her exquisitely rendered, transformative memoir, Price describes how she both broke free of the generational cycle of abuse, poverty, and violence that defined her childhood and eventually returned to the very same Appalachian community to provide the supports and services to children there that she never received. She is able to ultimately marry these two worlds to create a loving and meaningful life and family on her own terms and in service to others. With breathtaking insight and revelation into the evolution of her healing, This Happened to Me chronicles Price's enduring transformation from fearful child to empowered adult, from victim to advocate, and from despair to triumph.

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Kate Price is an associate research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women, a gender-based research institute at Wellesley College. She is also a senior research scholar at the Global Association of Human Trafficking Scholars, an advisor for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children's Child Sex Trafficking Expert Working Group and Global Platform for Child Exploitation Policy, and an alumni scholar at the Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center. An internationally recognized child sex trafficking expert and lecturer, Price's research has influenced the passage of state-level children's human rights legislation. Price is the recipient of a My Life, My Choice Beacon of Light Award, a Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize medal, a Mariam K. Chamberlain Dissertation Award from the International Centers for Research on Women, and an American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship. She has worked extensively with trauma pioneers Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Body Keeps the Score, in which Price is featured, and Dr. Judith Herman. Price received her MA in gender/cultural studies from Simmons College and earned her PhD in sociology from the University of Massachusetts Boston. She lives in Massachusetts with her family.

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