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Title	:	Strange Piece of Paradise
Author	:	Terri Jentz
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 729 pages
Published	:	March 20th 2007 by St. Martins Press-3PL (first published 2006)
Categories	:	Crime. True Crime. Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Mystery. Biography Memoir

Strange Piece of Paradise Paperback | Pages: 729 pages

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In the summer of 1977, Terri Jentz and her Yale roommate took a cross-country bike trip. As they lay sleeping in the central Oregon desert, a man in a pickup truck deliberately ran over their tent and proceeded to attack them with an axe. The horrific crime was reported in newspapers across the country, but no one was ever arrested. Fifteen years later, Jentz returns to the small town where she was nearly murdered and makes an extraordinary discovery: the violence of that night is as present for the community as it is for her. Shockingly, many say they know who did it, and he is living freely in their midst.

Powerful, eloquent, and paced like the most riveting of thrillers, Strange Piece of Paradise is a startling profile of a psychopath, a sweeping reflection on violence and the myth of American individualism, and a moving record of Jentz's brave inner journey from violence to hope.

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Original Title:	A Strange Piece of Paradise
ISBN:	0312426690 (ISBN13: 9780312426699)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Edgar Award Nominee for Best Fact Crime (2007), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Autobiography (2006)

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This book encompasses the struggle of the writer as she tries to make sense of a senseless act of violence that changed her entire life as well as the life of her college roommate. Ms.Jentz writes about the thorough investigation she conducted and all those who cooperated with her interviews. It was frustrating to know that the perpetrator could not be tried for the crime, and there were many people in law enforcement that I feel did not implement those duties to serve and protect.

Admittedly it wasn't what I had expected - I picked it up specifically because I was interested in the psychological trauma Terri Jentz sustained and how she dealt with it. While one is not privy to the gritty details of PTSD or the various revelations she may have had about her psychological state during her investigative process, she makes it clear that her research of the details surrounding the attack played a big part in her healing process.At first it is very much along the lines of a true

The best laid plans of mice and men were not to be for Terri Jentz. A 4,200 mile bicycle ride from Oregon to Virginia ended rather abruptly. Terri and a college roommate, Shayna, were run over by a truck while sleeping in a tent. The careless driver followed up with an axe, leaving the two girls for dead. Teris account alternates between the attack in June of 1977 and a return to Oregon fifteen years later in search of answers. A police report was available and Terri was told that attempted

Okay, I've long been obsessed by how we create our identities out of the stories we tell ourselves, and so the length and density of this book is a huge plus to me as it really talks about why the people involved remember things the way they do. Jentz is revisiting the town where (as a visiting bicyclist teen in the late 70s) she and a friend were run over by a truck whose driver then got out and struck them with an ax until both almost died. She look at how she's told this story and how that

Admittedly it wasn't what I had expected - I picked it up specifically because I was interested in the psychological trauma Terri Jentz sustained and how she dealt with it. While one is not privy to the gritty details of PTSD or the various revelations she may have had about her psychological state during her investigative process, she makes it clear that her research of the details surrounding the attack played a big part in her healing process.At first it is very much along the lines of a true

Feminist. True. Crime.

We actually listened to this riviting true-crime tale on a car trip to Seattle. in June of 1977, author Terry Jentz and her college roommate, attempted a cross-country bike ride following the "Bike Centennial" trail followed by many bikers during the country's bicentennial the previous year. Near Redmond, Oregon, the young women were driven over in their sleep and attacked by an ax-wielding young cowboy. Miraculously, both survived.