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What Happened to Paula by Katherine Dykstra is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is What Happened to Paula about?

A People Best Book of SummerA New York Times Most Anticipated Book of the SummerA riveting investigation into a cold case asks how much control women have over their bodies and the direction of their lives.July 1970. Eighteen-year-old Paula Oberbroeckling left her house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Four months later, her remains were discovered just beyond the mouth of a culvert overlooking the Cedar River. Her homicide has never been solved.Fifty years cold, Paula's case had been mostly forgotten when journalist Katherine Dykstra began looking for answers. A woman was dead. Why had no one been held responsible? How could the powers that be, how could a community, have given up? Tracing Paula's final days, Dykstra uncovers a girl whose exultant personality was at odds with the Midwest norms of the late 1960s. A girl who was caught between independence and youthful naivete, between a love that defied racially segregated Cedar Rapids...

Who reads What Happened to Paula?

Author

Katherine Dykstra

Publisher

W. W. Norton & Company

Published

2021

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Biography, Memoir, True Crime