kidnapping, 1991

Jaycee Lee Dugard was kidnapped on her way to the school bus in 1991. In 2009, she was found. For eighteen years she had lived in an outbuilding on the property of a registered sex offender named Philip Garrido, just two hours away from her childhood home Kept in complete isolation, she was raped by Garrido, who fathered her two daughters.-- Cover, p. 4.

In the summer of June 1991 Jaycee Dugard was a normal kid. That all changed in an instant when she was kidnapped. For eighteen years Jaycee Dugard lived in her kidnapper's backyard in shacks and tents, raised her two daughters, and tried to survive. On August 26, 2009 she took her own name back when she was rescued, a name she was not allowed to speak during her captivity.

Jaycee Dugard chronicles the eighteen years she spent in captivity, describing what happened after she was kidnapped at age eleven in 1991, the abuse she endured, the birth of her two daughters, the events leading up to her release, and her struggle to adjust to life once she was reunited with her family.