02027cam a2200313 i 4500 1169742298 TxAuBib 20240404120000.0 230913s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023041428 9781640096370 HRD 27.00 164009637X HRD 27.00 TxAuBib rda Ervin, Kristine S.,. Rabbit Heart [Book] : a mother's murder, a daughter's story / Kristine S. Ervin. First Counterpoint edition. Berkeley, California : Counterpoint, 2024. 288 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-288). "Kristine S. Ervin was just eight years old when her mother, Kathy Sue Engle, was abducted from an Oklahoma mall parking lot and violently murdered in an oil field. First, there was grief. Then the desire to know: what happened to her, what she felt in her last terrible moments, and all she was before these acts of violence defined her life. In her mother's absence, Ervin tries to reconstruct a woman she can never fully grasp--from her own memory, from letters she uncovers, and the stories of other familymembers. As more information about her mother's death comes to light, Ervin's drive to know her mother only intensifies, winding its way into her own fraught adolescence. In the process of both, she reckons with contradictions of what a woman is allowedto be--a self beyond the roles of wife, mother, daughter, victim--what a "true" victim is supposed to look like, and, finally, how complicated and elusive justice can be"-- Provided by publisher. 20240404. Ervin, Kristine S. Murder Oklahoma Case studies. Murder victims' families Oklahoma. Children of murder victims Oklahoma.