Dugard to release second memoir in July
By Robert Salonga, Mercury News
Jaycee Lee Dugard, who miraculously resurfaced in 2009 after 18 years of captivity in an Antioch back yard during which her kidnapper fathered two daughters with her, will release a second memoir chronicling her life since being freed, her publisher announced Tuesday.
“Freedom: My Book of Firsts,” is set for a July 12 release, five years to the day from the publication of her first memoir, “A Stolen Life,” a heart-wrenching, disturbing autobiographical account of Dugard’s life between her abduction as an 11-year-old girl from her Meyers neighborhood in 1991 to when she revealed herself to be still alive in a Concord parole office.
In a press release, publisher Simon & Schuster says the new book details her first experiences upon being freed from the clutches of captors Phillip and Nancy Garrido in August 2009, by which point she had two daughters by Phillip — who first impregnated her when she was 13 — who are now teenagers.
