What A Body Remembers: A Memoir of Sexual Assault and Its Aftermath Audiobook (Free)

On a summer season evening in 1984, nineteen-year-old UC Berkeley sophomore Karen Thomas leaves her uniformed patrol work on the University of California Law enforcement Department and walks house alone in darkness. In the threshold of her house a guy assaults her at knife point. After a soul chilling struggle she manages to flee and contact 911. Law enforcement capture her assailant, she recognizes him, and he is arrested.

Fast forwards 2014, 30 years after her assault, when her life, once again, is apparently about What A Body Remembers: A Memoir of Sexual Assault and Its Aftermath crumbling. As she stumbles her way through the times, navigating a dying relationship, devastating financial loss, and an elderly mother slipping into dementia at disheartening speed, she becomes fascinated by her own anxiousness, with the PTSD still activated by the audio of footsteps and she wonders, why does the body keep in mind what your brain tries so frantically to forget? Her questions prompt an obsession with her assailant: Whatever became of him? What is he doing today? She starts a mission of excavation, determined to learn, tracking down the police report and courtroom document from her case, and on the thirtieth anniversary of her attack profits to Berkeley and the picture of her assault. What she discovers is definitely life altering.