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If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation
 

If I Am Missing or Dead: A Sister's Story of Love, Murder, and Liberation

by Janine Latus

In April 2002, Janine Latus's youngest sister, Amy, wrote a note and taped it to the inside of her desk drawer. Today Ron Ball and I are romantically involved, it read, but I fear I have placed myself at risk in a variety of ways. Based on his criminal past, writing this out just seems like the smart thing to do. If I am missing or dead this obviously has not protected me...
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Top tags: memoir,  domestic violence,  murder,  non-fiction,  nonfiction (all tags)

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Abigail Christy
  • Rated 5 stars

““Author, Janine Latus writes a loving memoir about coming of age in the sixties along with her siblings, her struggle to get an education and make something of her life, only to find herself in an emotionally abusive marriage. If that is not bad enough, her youngest sister, Amy is missing. Loving, strong, sensitive Amy who also finds herself in an abusive relationship. However, now Amy is missing. But Amy keeps a journal. And taped inside Amy's desk drawer is a note, "If I am missing or dead,...”

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Brittany
  • Rated 2 stars

“Okay. I have a lot of different opinions about this book. It is advertised as a book for the author's sister for liberation and to honor the life, as her sister was murdered. Well don't expect that. It's mainly a story about the authors emotional and sexually abusive life, kind of a "feel sorry for me" kind of thing. It's a good story but I thought this book was supposed to be about her sister? You don't find out about her sisters murder until about page 250 (the book is 300 pages). And...”

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  • Rated 3.608392 stars
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  • Rated 4 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • kaycee59

    kaycee59 said:

    “outstanding book! i read it in 24 hours also, could not put it down.”

    posted Saturday, September 22 2007
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