The Basement: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice: With a New Introduction by Kate Millett

The Basement: Meditations on a Human Sacrifice: With a New Introduction

Kate Millett

nonfiction crime feminism true crime challenging informative reflective slow-paced

341 pages | first published 1979

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On October 26, 1965, the body of a sixteen-year-old girl named Sylvia Likens was found on a dirty mattress in a basement in Indianapolis, Indiana. Starved, mutilated, covered with cigarette burns, the victim had been imprisoned and tortured to dea...
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