Kate Price

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Readworthy for BookBub, A Best New Memoir, 9/4/2025
"Fans of The Glass Castle and Educated: This is your fall must-read."

'There is nothing unique about Epstein or his crimes', 9/2/2025
My Women Change Worlds blog post about how the calculated and systematic nature of the way Jeffrey Epstein trafficked hundreds of girls is exactly how the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) operates: in plain sight with individuals of all political affliations in power helping perpetuate its harms.

Oprah Daily Best Books of Fall 2025, 8/26/2025
"While Price’s story is harrowing, the memoir is unexpectedly uplifting; this is not simply the story of what happened to Kate Price nor even why it happened. It is the story of what happened next: how Price learned to face her trauma head-on, and how full and fearless life can be on the other side. A triumph." — Charley Burlock

"I was complete dehumanised by my father"; how Kate Price uncovered the horrifying truths of her childhood, The Guardian, 8/18/2025
"I’m grateful that I can be here, to provide research that validates other people’s experience, particularly for familial survivors who have been told by their families, like me, that they’re crazy, that they’re making this up. To be able to say, actually, here’s somebody who got the proof. This really does happen.” — Emine Saner

Bookreporter Bets On Selection, 8/15/2025
"[THIS HAPPENED TO ME] is a harrowing testament to the power of resilience and survival, but also a galvanizing call to action and a cutting reminder of the ways that privilege blinds us to uncomfortable truths." — Rebecca Munro

'The Body Keeps the Score' patient Kate Price tells her story in memoir 'This Happened to Me', WBUR Here & Now, 8/11/25
As a child, Kate Price was physically and sexually abused by her father, who also trafficked her to other men. Her memories of that time were fragmentary until, as an adult, she went through therapy with psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, who wrote about her case in his best-selling book The Body Keeps the Score. Now Price has published her memoir The Happened to Me: A Reckoning. She speaks with host Robin Young about the book.

Totally Booked with Zibby Owens Podcast, 8/11/2025
Zibby interviews author and researcher Kate Price about This Happened to Me: A Reckoning, an exquisitely rendered, haunting, and transformative memoir about how she broke free of the horror that defined her childhood and created a purpose-driven life and family, on her own terms. She also reflects on the solace she found in books, her decade-long investigation, and how she’s turned trauma into a groundbreaking career fighting child trafficking.

Indie Next List August 2025 
"Price gets comparisons to Jeannette Walls and Tara Westover, and they are deserved! An unflinching tale of overcoming repressed childhood trauma and breaking cycles of abuse. Her story of growth will inspire you." — Andi Richardson, Fountain Bookstore, Richmond, VA

Shelf Awareness Best Books This Week, 8/8/2025
"This harrowing but ultimately hopeful memoir about surviving a childhood marked by sexual abuse and breaking the cycle of trauma is nothing short of breathtaking."

BookPage Starred Review, 8/5/2025
"Price uses unadorned language to recount her decades-long path to health and to understanding the abuse she experienced at her father’s hands...The pain she recounts is difficult to read, but artfully told. Price doesn’t use her history for shock value. Instead, This Happened to Me weaves exploration of patterns of abuse, privilege and class with the story of a woman who wants to understand her own life." — Carla Jean Whitley

Washington Post Noteworthy Books (July and August), 7/16/2025
"Price frankly details her therapeutic journey to cultivate a supportive community and today works as a scholar and lecturer advocating for trafficking survivors and other victims." — Becky Meloan

Library Journal Review, 7/1/2025
"Verdict: An essential addition to collections, alongside The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison." — Amy Cheney

12 books with New England ties to read this summer | WBUR News, 6/13/2025
"In this searing, emotionally fraught memoir, Kate Price chronicles her journey overcoming a childhood trauma so horrific her brain refused to remember...This Happened to Me is Price’s reckoning with not only what happened, but how she could move forward with a meaningful life not singularly defined by tragedy." — Katherine Ouellette

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