Shattered: Reclaiming a life torn apart by violence

Introduction

The book is a masterpiece of emotion and experience which the author, who is the victim herself, shares with her readers in a unique and shivering way. The book gives an insight of how such incidents can occur and what are the experiences the victim goes through when such a tragedy occurs. The story is exhilarating as the author expresses her personal experience in the most truthful manner, shedding light on the stress resulting from the trauma which she faced, yet managing to take a hold of her live as a beacon of hope, and educating others who face such incidents. The book highlights, how quick thinking and reporting to the authority to take action to get the culprit apprehended which can prevent him or her from committing further such acts. It also clearly explains, the PTSD a victim like Debra faces, and how they can either ruin their life, or can be used to get their life back on track.

The story covers her courage of accumulating her strength after she is kidnapped for five excruciating days, removing her bonds and calling the police while the kidnapper was at work, and returning to her life as a survivor, rather than a victim. Her actions are similar to the PTSD she and other such victims may indulge into, but also how her actions were appropriate in helping others by getting the assailant caught in time, and preventing him from going and committing further rapes.

Shattered: Reclaiming a life torn apart by violence

Shattered: Reclaiming a life torn apart by violence: is a masterpiece of work, catching all the detail of a hideous crime, in untold clarity. It catches the details of the horrific happening on the April of 1998, when Debra Puglisi, a wife, mother and a nurse was raped and kidnapped.

General Overview

Debra Puglisi, a nurse, wife and mother of twins, was tending to her rose garden when she comes under attack and was raped by a drug addict factory worked, who also shot her husband Nino who got in the way. He took her away in his car after kidnapping her. She stays in his house for five days, where she found out about her husband murder over the radio. She was able to accumulate her strength; eventually loosening her ties, and grope all the way to call 911 while the kidnapper was at work.

The book is an outstanding description of will power, hope and a painful journey back to life. Debra, not only had to struggle to heal from the horrific event, and the loss of her husband, but also had to face the agony of court trails and her children.

The victim

Debra Puglisi Sharp was a simple, trusting and idealistic woman who was sentimental to faults. This changed in a violent instant one day. In April 1998, she was caring for her roses in her graded when a cocaine addicted factory worker decided to have her. The addict sneaked into her home through ...