Rabbit heart : a mother's murder, a daughter's story / Kristine S. Ervin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ervin, Kristine S., author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ervin, Kristine S.

Murder--Oklahoma--Case studies.

Murder.

Murder victims' families--Oklahoma.

Murder victims' families.

Children of murder victims--Oklahoma.

Children of murder victims.

Genre:

Biographies.

Case studies.

True crime stories.

Physical Description:

288 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Counterpoint edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2024.

Summary:

"Kristine S. Ervin was just eight years old when her mother, Kathy Sue Engle, was abducted from an Oklahoma mall parking lot and violently murdered in an oil field. First, there was grief. Then the desire to know: what happened to her, what she felt in her last terrible moments, and all she was before these acts of violence defined her life. In her mother's absence, Ervin tries to reconstruct a woman she can never fully grasp-from her own memory, from letters she uncovers, and the stories of other family members. As more information about her mother's death comes to light, Ervin's drive to know her mother only intensifies, winding its way into her own fraught adolescence. In the process of both, she reckons with contradictions of what a woman is allowed to be-a self beyond the roles of wife, mother, daughter, victim-what a "true" victim is supposed to look like, and, finally, how complicated and elusive justice can be"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Woman gone missing: Cleaving to, part I

The teenage girl's body book: Cleaving to, part II

Distance to you: Cleaving to, part III

Truly innocent victim: Cleaving to, part IV

The one that you love: Cleaving to, part V

Motherline: Cleaving to, part VI

The sound of punishment, Cleaving to, part VII

The sleeping place.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beardwood Fund bookplate.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781640096370

164009637X

OCLC:

1392163280