This Happened to Me

'A brilliant and moving account of a journey of healing ... Thank you Kate, for sharing your courage and your hard-earned wisdom.' - Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score'Price not only rises above the hurt and hate, she uses her hard-won insights to shine a light for others.' -Jeannette Walls, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass CastleFor readers of Educated, The Glass Castle, and Know My Name comes a powerful memoir that is a remarkable testament of survival and resilience. At once harrowing and inspiring, Kate Price's story is testament to the power to heal.Kate Price grew up in a small town in Pennsylvania with her sister and parents. In leaving, she broke one of many, unwritten rules when it came to cycles of poverty, violence, addiction, mental illness, and abuse. She started a new life in Boston where she began to experience a series of hazy, horrifying flashbacks.Through work with Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, a trauma specialist and author of The Body Keeps the Score, Price discovered that her father had abused and trafficked her as a child. So began a 10-year quest with a journalist from the Boston Globe. Revisiting the hometown she thought she had left forever, the two found the proof Price had been searching for. In her transformative memoir, Price describes how she broke free of that which had defined her childhood, to create a life and family on her own terms. From victim to advocate, from fearful child to empowered adult, This Happened to Me is a story of astonishing resilience and breathtaking determination.

Kate Price is an Associate Research Scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women, a gender-based research institute at Wellesley College. She is also an alumni scholar at the Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Institute and a senior research associate at a health and human services firm outside of Boston. Price received her master's degree in Gender/Cultural Studies from Simmons College and earned her Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Massachusetts Boston. Price is an internationally recognized child sex trafficking expert whose work has influenced the passage of state-level children's human rights legislation. Price's work has been published in various scholarly journals and she is a member of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Child Sex Trafficking Expert Working Group as well as a founding Advisory Board member of the U.S. branch of End Child Prostitution and Trafficking. Price is the recipient of a Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize medal, a Mariam K. Chamberlain Dissertation Award from the International Centers for Research on Women and an American Association of University Women Dissertation Fellowship.