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For Laci: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Justice
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Manufacturer: Crown
Book written by: Sharon Rocha
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Product Description: For Laci: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Justice
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 364.1523092
EAN: 9780307338280
ISBN: 0307338282
Label: Crown
Manufacturer: Crown
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 2005-12-31
Publisher: Crown
Release Date: 2005-12-31
Studio: Crown
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Every mother’s worst fear became Sharon Rocha’s reality. On Christmas Eve 2002, she received a phone call from her son-in-law saying that her daughter, Laci, was missing. In the hours, days, and eventually months that followed, Sharon struggled to avoid accepting what no parent should ever have to face: the certain knowledge that her child is never coming home. In For Laci, for the first time, Sharon tells us what it was like to live through the long nightmare and opens our hearts to the Laci she loved: the kindergarten artist, the tenth grader who cried on her mother’s lap after her first breakup, the young woman who planned her wedding with joyful enthusiasm.
At the time of her disappearance, Laci was twenty-seven years old, seven and a half months pregnant, and a vibrant presence in the lives of everyone who knew her. How, Sharon wondered, could Laci so suddenly become a missing person? That very word missing seemed premature, somehow suspect. From that first moment, Sharon knew with a mother’s instinct that something—beyond the alarming news itself—was terribly wrong. As the world now knows, she was right. Nearly two years after that night, a jury in the State of California found Scott Peterson guilty of the murder of his wife and their unborn son, Conner.
Until now, the world has not had an answer to a question that held countless millions in its grip. Through all the relentless media coverage of this unspeakable crime and subsequent trial, we all wondered: What would it be like to experience such a horror involving your own child and grandchild? What, indeed, was Sharon Rocha feeling?
In For Laci, Sharon tells us. In so doing, she goes far beyond previous accounts to tell this story with unprecedented immediacy and intimacy. Here are her private conversations with the murderer, his mistress, Amber Frey, and the lead police investigators as they meticulously build their case, as well as surprising and heartbreaking revelations about the trial and its aftermath. Perhaps what is most affecting is the sense we get of the person Laci Peterson was, and what it feels like to lose—as Sharon put it in her Victim’s Impact Statement—“her beautiful smile, her contagious giggle, her happy heart, her love of life, her great expectations of becoming a mother, her generous soul, her knowing how much I love her, and my knowing how much she loves me.”
Inspired by a desire to help others who find themselves similarly afflicted, to detail how the love of family, friends, and community helped her survive her ordeal, and to convey how much was lost when her wonderful daughter was taken, Sharon Rocha has written a powerful and deeply moving memoir of loss and the love that always endures.
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Also available as a Random House AudioBook and Large Print Edition
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Summary: A frighteningly ordinary story, in so many ways
Comment: Laci Rocha Peterson wanted to be a mother. For that, she died. We already know the outcome of this story before we pick up the book that tells it, from the viewpoint of Laci's mother. So why bother to read it? Because it's riveting. Because it has so much to say, some of it deliberately and some inadvertently, about human behavior at its best as well as at its worst.
The book's first chapters paint a portrait of Laci, from her birth through her happy childhood and occasionally stormy adolescence. Sharon Rocha doesn't try to present her daughter as perfect, which of course she was not. When Scott Peterson enters her story, Laci is a young woman who has learned some important lessons about life and love; but she hasn't learned how to see through a sociopath, and author Rocha makes it clear (without trying to hammer home a point that requires no hammering) that no one saw through Scott until it was too late for Laci. He said what he knew people wanted to hear him say; and when that included agreeing to having a baby, his wife had no way of realizing that his agreement would ultimately become her death sentence. She only knew that he agreed with some reluctance, but she felt sure that would melt away once he saw his child. She didn't really know Scott Peterson. No one did, not even the parents who remained blind even as the court room drama that ended in his conviction played out before them.
This story is a frighteningly ordinary one, because - as the author points out in her acknowledgements - murder is the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S., and the murderer in the overwhelming majority of cases is the unborn child's father. What can be done about that? Sharon Rocha offers no easy answers. What she does offer is Laci's story, and that of her own and her family's survival through an ordeal that will never truly end.
--Reviewed by Nina M. Osier, author of "Love, Jimmy: A Maine Veteran's Longest Battle"
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Summary: ABSOLUTELY one of the best books I have ever read
Comment: I received this book for a Christmas gift, and was through it in less than 5 days. It is the most sincere and touching account the horrible tragedy that I have ever read. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Emotional Read!
Comment: I really enjoyed this book and bought it because this whole story bothered me so much, having had my first child around the time this horrible story took place. Sharon Rocha does a wonderful job of memorializing her daughter and relaying the events that happened up to the fateful day in this book. I found it hard to put down and would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: Behind Closed Doors...
Comment: For Laci: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, and Justice is a heart-wrenching tale of a mother's most painful times after her daughter and grandson are murdered -- by the one person none of them would have suspected, her husband.
We read about Laci's childhood, her wonderfully vibrant personality, and how she met the love of her life -- Scott Peterson. Behind closed doors, what went on in this family that would turn the beautiful fairytale story into a tragic nightmare?
There is little in the book to reveal the clues to that tale -- others conclude that the truth lay somewhere in the psyche of a sociopath, a charming young man whose goal in life was to satisfy his own needs.
This story seems near to my heart, since I once lived in the community where all of this took place, and even attended the community college there (Modesto, CA).
Another book that lends another aspect to the mysterious events is the story told by Amber Frey, Scott Peterson's mistress, in Witness: For the Prosecution of Scott Peterson.
Even after several years, this story of what can go wrong in a picture-book life holds fascination for many. Do we read the titillating tales because we want to stave off misfortune in our own lives?
Whatever our reasons, these questions linger. And the pain of the loss for people like Laci's mother will never be assuaged.
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Summary: one of the best books I've ever read
Comment: being a mother, my heart bleeds for Sharon...I cried through the whole story - that Scott deserves nothing less than eternal hell - he did it - there is no doubt - I just cannot believe the difference from "lover" to "murderer" - I've seen it, not the murderer part but know of hot/cold people - it boggles the mind that even when they(Laci's family) tried to extend sympathy to the Peterson family they said "F you" in those words - I cannot get over that unless their own shame for what their son clearly did astounds them as well - I don't know - I just know that this book is amazing and I kiss my little ones extra hard because I cannot imagine having to go through something like this - God Bless Sharon, and Ron and Bret and Amy - hopefully you shall find peace - never again will I sweat the small stuff - this book had more of a profound effect on me than I thought it would - every mother/father should read it - it's unreal....
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