Freedom

My Book of Firsts

By: Jaycee Dugard

Narrated by: Jaycee Dugard

In the follow-up to her #1 bestselling memoir, A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard tells the story of her first experiences after years in captivity: the joys that accompanied her newfound freedom and the challenges of adjusting to life on her own.

When Jaycee Dugard was eleven years old, she was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in South Lake Tahoe, California. She was missing for more than eighteen years, held captive by Philip and Nancy Garrido, and gave birth to two daughters during her imprisonment.

In A Stolen Life Jaycee told the story of her life from her abduction in 1991 through her reappearance in 2009. Freedom: My Book of Firsts is about everything that happened next.

“How do you rebuild a life?” Jaycee asks. In these pages, she describes the life she never thought she would live to see: from her first sight of her mother to her first time meeting her grownup sister, her first trip to the dentist to her daughters’ first day of school, her first taste of champagne to her first hangover, her first time behind the wheel to her first speeding ticket, and her first dance at a friend’s wedding to her first thoughts about the possibility of a future relationship.

This raw and inspiring book will remind you that there is, as Jaycee writes, “life after something tragic happens…Somehow, I still believe that we each hold the key to our own happiness and you have to grab it where you can in whatever form it might take.” Freedom is an awe-inspiring memoir about the power we all hold within ourselves.

Thank you Jaycee for surviving!

Awesome continuance, I hope you continue to inspire. I am looking forward to your next writing, I know you love to write.

Seeing The World Through JayCee

Jaycee, thank you for letting me see the world through your eyes. It has been uplifting, wonderful experience.

The knowledge Jaycee gives to you by allowing us to see the world through her is amazing.

Thank You!!

Excellent

what a powerful book what a strong woman. God bless her and her family.

Glad I read it

I’m very happy I read this book. After reading her first book, and listening to all the horrible things she went through, this book brought closure for me. It completed the story and made me feel happy about how she is living her life. The resilience is incredible. I hope she keeps writing about her life journey. And although she is not a trained narrator, hearing her own voice was great.

strength

I love the strength and endurance Jaycee shows in both of her books. They are very well written.