Rust and Stardust

 

Shirley J.                  Adult Historical Fiction                 Fictionalized True Story of a child abducted, raped                                                                                          and kept captive for 2 years until her rescue

Rust and Stardust by T. Greenwood    384 pages

Good telling of the events that took place in 1948 when 11 year old Sally Horner was abducted and held captive for 2 years from Camden, New Jersey to San Jose, California.   The facts are true, many of the characters that Sally encounters during her time in captivity have been fabricated by the author but make the sad story more palatable.   A well done book.   I would recommend this one to mature teens on up.  The reader has to remember that kids were not as savvy to the ways of the world in 1948 as they are today and the way Sally was duped happened not from her lack of intelligence but lack of experience and understanding.     Bit of trivia -this event was the inspiration for the book, "Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov.