Author Kate Price at Booktenders

About this event

Join us for an afternoon with Kate Price to celebrate the paperback release of her powerful memoir “This Happened to Me.” Follow the link for tickets below to secure your spot—the cost of the ticket includes a copy of the book. If you already own the book, that will serve as your ticket. If you would like to discuss the book with other prior to the event, the Stories of Resilience book club will be meeting on August 19th at Booktenders at 5:30 to do so. https://withfriends.co/…/2868…/author_event_w_kate_price Kate Price grew up in a small mill town in central Pennsylvania with her sister and parents in northern Appalachia. At the insistence of her mother, and through her academic accomplishments, Price escaped the unbroken cycles of poverty, violence, addiction, mental illness, and abuse that had plagued her family for generations. She started a new life in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in pursuit of her master’s and PhD. But despite having left this dark world behind, it still kept a firm grip on her. Overcome with unexplainable grief and sadness and having sustained a series of hazy flashbacks accompanied by a “chilling of her blood and uncomfortable feeling in her bones,” Price sought out Dr. van der Kolk, a trauma specialist, to help heal her constant emotional pain through EMDR therapy. When Price, whose brain had been protecting her by shutting out these horrific memories, felt safe enough, she along with van der Kolk as her guide, discovered what that darkness that lay within her was. Her father had abused and trafficked her as a child. Price grappled with what had been revealed. Did this really happen to her? How could a parent do this to a child? A dedicated researcher and academic, she knew she needed confirmation, proof that what she had remembered had happened. And so began a 10-year quest alongside a journalist, to prove what Price knew to be her truth. With many trips back to the hometown she thought she had left forever, the two eventually found the…