FOR LACI
by Rocha, Sharon
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Collectible, Fine/Fine
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Crown Pub., nd, C2006, 2006. Hardcover. Collectible, Fine/Fine. Royal octavo, hardcover, fine in fine what pictorial dj. First edition, first printing. On Christmas Eve 2002, she received a phone call from her son-in-law saying that her daughter, Laci, was missing. In the hours, days, and eventually months that followed, Sharon struggled to avoid accepting what no parent should ever have to face: the certain knowledge that her child is never coming home. In For Laci, for the first time, Sharon tells us what it was like to live through the long nightmare and opens our hearts to the Laci she loved: the kindergarten artist, the tenth grader who cried on her mothers lap after her first breakup, the young woman who planned her wedding with joyful enthusiasm. At the time of her disappearance, Laci was twenty-seven years old, seven and a half months pregnant, and a vibrant presence in the lives of everyone who knew her. How, Sharon wondered, could Laci so suddenly become a missing person? That very word missing seemed premature, somehow suspect. From that first moment, Sharon knew with a mothers instinct that something--beyond the alarming news itself--was terribly wrong. As the world now knows, she was right. Nearly two years after that night, a jury in the State of California found Scott Peterson guilty of the murder of his wife and their unborn son, Conner. Until now, the world has not had an answer to a question that held countless millions in its grip. Through all the relentless media coverage of this unspeakable crime and subsequent trial, we all wondered: What would it be like to experience such a horror involving your own child and grandchild? What, indeed, was Sharon Rocha feeling? In For Laci, Sharon tells us. In so doing, she goes far beyond previous accounts to tell this story with unprecedented immediacy and intimacy.
Synopsis
SHARON ROCHA is the mother of Laci Peterson. After the murder of her daughter and unborn grandson, she has campaigned for victim's rights, and helped launch Laci and Conner's Law, which makes it a crime to harm a fetus during an attack on a pregnant woman. The law, specifically the Unborn Victims of Violence Act, was signed into law by the President in April 2004. She lives in California. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 72750
- Title
- FOR LACI
- Author
- Rocha, Sharon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Collectible, Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Crown Pub., nd, C2006
- Date Published
- 2006
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