This Happened to Me: A Reckoning

Kate Price’s memoir is a powerful testament to resilience, healing en route from a harrowing childhood to a life defined by empowerment. Growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania with her sister and parents, Price confronts a dark past marked by poverty, violence, addiction, mental illness, and abuse. Her story unfolds across years in which she relocates to Boston, where hazy flashbacks and a chilling sense of dread lead her to seek help from trauma specialist Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. A journalist from the Boston Globe accompanies Price on a ten-year quest to uncover the truth about her father’s abuse and trafficking, ultimately providing hard-earned proof of her experiences. The narrative traces how she breaks free from the patterns that defined her childhood to build a life and a family on her own terms, transforming from victim to advocate and from fear to empowerment.

Assigned as a beacon for readers of Evocative memoirs like Educated and The Glass Castle, This Happened to Me is a labor of survival and a testament to the strength of the human spirit. It offers a deeply personal account of confronting trauma, seeking understanding, and choosing healing, with a clear message that resilience can illuminate a path forward even after unimaginable pain.

• Memoir of survival and resilience
• Childhood in a Pennsylvania town
• Abuse and trafficking by her father
• Therapy with trauma expert Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
• Boston Globe journalist helps uncover truth
• From victim to advocate and empowered adult

Pages: 320; Paperback; Tiptree Book Service; 19/06/2025 release date.