In her debut memoir Rabbit Heart, Kristine S. Ervin delves into the emotional toll her mother’s death took on her and her family.
Kristine S. Ervin was 8 when her mother was abducted from a mall parking lot, murdered and abandoned in an Oklahoma oil field.
“That’s something my father gave me, that feeling of being held by a house that I loved, and a house where I remember my mother,” writer Kristine S. Ervin toldIt took decades for Ervin’s mother’s case to be resolved, and her murderers brought to justice—and Ervin is upfront about the sorrow this caused. sheds light on the ways women confront violence and gender power dynamics in our everyday lives and encourages us to take back our voices by refusing to remain silent.
And then there was a time I went in to see my doctor again when I was in high school. There was a thermometer and after taking my own temperature, I set it on the table in front of my legs. When he came in, he said, “Is that an in-between-the-legs thermometer?” I went to my father with this. He said, “Well, isn’t there always a nurse in the room with you?” And I said, “No.” He said, “That’s why I thought he was joking with you.
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