Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, two of three women who were kidnapped and held captive for a decade by bus driver Ariel Castro in Cleveland, OH, have penned a book.
“Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland” (Viking), which was written in conjunction with Pulitzer Prize–winning Washington Post reporters Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan, tells the story of how they were captured, raped and tortured in Castro’s basement.
“The full story behind the headlines—including details never previously released on Castro’s life and motivations—Hope is a harrowing yet inspiring chronicle of two women whose courage, ingenuity, and resourcefulness ultimately delivered them back to their lives and families,” explains the book’s description.
Michelle Knight, the third victim, wrote a memoir called, “Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed: A Memoir of the Cleveland Kidnappings,” which was published last year by Weinstein Books.
Michelle Knight, one of three women kidnapped and held victim by Ariel Castro in Ohio, has published her memoir. She was the first of the three women to be kidnapped and the first of the group to publish a book. Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus are working on a book, which will be out later this year.
In Finding Me: A Decade of Darkness, a Life Reclaimed (Weinstein Books), Knight tells her story recounting the harrowing tale of life in captivity. Here is more about the book:
Barely out of her own tumultuous childhood, Michelle was estranged from her family and fighting for custody of her young son when she disappeared. Local police believed she had run away, so they removed her from the missing persons lists fifteen months after she vanished. Castro tormented her with these facts, reminding her that no one was looking for her, that the outside world had forgotten her. But Michelle would not be broken.
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Ariel Castro kidnapping survivors Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus will collaborate with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Mary Jordan on an upcoming book about their experience.
Jordan (pictured, via) will interview Berry and DeJesus to tell their story. Williams & Connolly attorney Robert Barnett will negotiate the deal. At this point in time, no publication date has been scheduled. Here’s more about the book:
Berry and DeJesus, who, along with Michelle Knight, spent a decade in captivity — chained and shuttered inside the home of Ariel Castro on Cleveland’s near West Side — before escaping on May 6, when Berry kicked out a panel in the front door and crawled to freedom with the help of neighbors responding to her cries for help.
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