Pieces of Me
Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters
She Writes Press · Print & ebook · September 20, 2016
Now a Lifetime television movie starring Sarah Drew, Stolen By Their Father was adapted from the story of Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters about a young mother and her daughters face the unimaginable consequences after leaving abuse.
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- Who it’s for
- A mother’s effort to bring her daughters home unfolds through public advocacy and far-reaching community support.
- Themes
- Parental kidnapping, Life after abuse, Community support
- Genres
- Abductions & Missing Persons, Personal Memoirs, Women's Lives
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Now a Lifetime television movie starring Sarah Drew, Stolen By Their Father was adapted from the story of Pieces of Me: Rescuing My Kidnapped Daughters about a young mother and her daughters face the unimaginable consequences after leaving abuse. In 1994, Lizbeth Meredith said good-bye to her four- and six year-old daughters for a visit with their non-custodial father only to learn days later that they had been kidnapped and taken to their father's home country of Greece.
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Twenty-nine and just on the verge of making her dreams of financial independence for her and her daughters come true, Lizbeth now faced a $100,000 problem on a $10 an hour budget. For the next two years fueled by memories of her own childhood kidnapping, Lizbeth traded in her small life for a life more public, traveling to the White House and Greece, and becoming a local media sensation in order to garner interest in her efforts. The generous community of Anchorage becomes Lizbeth's makeshift family?one that is replicated by a growing number of Greeks and expats overseas who help Lizbeth navigate the turbulent path leading back to her daughters.
A Fight to Reunite
A mother’s effort to bring her daughters home unfolds through public advocacy and far-reaching community support.
Come here for
- A mother’s determined effort to reunite with her daughters
- Support reaching from Anchorage to Greece
Expect
- A personal account of family separation and advocacy
- The emotional and practical strain of pursuing reunion
Where it sits
| Personal Memoirs | 62% |
|---|---|
| Abductions & Missing Persons | 53% |
| Women's Lives | 45% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Personal Memoirs
- Partner Abuse
- Relationships
- Authors
- Lizbeth Meredith
- Publisher
- She Writes Press
- Published
- September 20, 2016
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Parental kidnapping · Life after abuse · Community support
- Reading lane
- Personal Memoirs