Jane finds it difficult to discuss what happened to her and no one seems to know exactly what to say or do around her.

While everyone is thrilled she is home, her parents and her best friend Shelley are also have trouble dealing with Jane’s return. She is also struggling to reintegrate into normal life. Jane’s relief at escaping her captor is tempered by the loss of Mason, a fellow victim who helped lift her spirits throughout her seven months long ordeal. With the narrative weaving back and forth between then and now, her experiences both during and after her time in captivity are revealed through a book Jane is writing as therapy. Her life is completely shattered when she is kidnapped and held prisoner for seven months. Jane Anonymous is a typical teenager who lives somewhere in the New England region.

Jane Anonymous by Laurie Faria Stolarz is a disturbing, gut wrenching young adult novel about a teenager’s kidnapping and aftermath. How far will I have to go to uncover the truth of what happened-and will it break me forever? I don’t believe he wasn’t really there and I’m determined to find him. But I distinctly remember the screams, holding hands with Mason through a hole in my wall, and sharing a chocolate bar. When I ask the detectives assigned to my case about Mason, I get an answer I don’t believe-that there were no traces of any other kidnapped kids. So I start my own form of therapy-but writing about my experience awakens uncomfortable memories, ones that should’ve stayed buried. Therapists are clueless and condescending. But they don’t understand that dining out and shopping trips can’t heal what’s broken inside me. Now that I’m home, my parents and friends want everything to be like it was before I left. But when that day finally came, I had to leave him behind. My only solace was Mason-one of the other kidnapped teens-and our pact to one day escape together. The last time I saw the face of my abductor was when he dragged me fighting from the trunk of his car. I received meals, laundered clothes, and toiletries through a cat door, never knowing if it was day or night. Locked in a room with a bed, refrigerator, and adjoining bathroom, I was instructed to eat, bathe, and behave. Title: Jane Anonymous by Laurie Faria StolarzĬomplimentary Review Copy Provided by Publisher Through Edelweissīestselling author Laurie Faria Stolarz’s thrilling novel Jane Anonymous is a revelatory confessional of a seventeen-year-old girl’s fight to escape a kidnapper-and her struggles to connect with loved ones and a life that no longer exists.

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