One Day She'll Darken: The Mysterious Beginnings of Fauna Hodel - Softcover

Fauna Hodel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1631682474 ISBN 13: 9781631682476

Publisher: Graymalkin Media, 2019

Synopsis

The inspiration for the TNT series I Am the Night.

The Black Dahlia Murder is near-legend in the annals of true crime. But behind the shocking case of a young actress s gruesome slaying lies the story of another woman.

Was Fauna Hodel the child of incest, and the catalyst for a sensational trial that left her well-to-do family scarred by scandal, even as the accused sexual predator walked free? Taken as an infant from her teenage mother, Fauna was placed in the care of a working-class black woman, who raised the white child as her own.

Together, as a close-knit mother and daughter, they weathered years of poverty and bigotry, alcoholism and sexual abuse, pregnancy and even death until the time came for Fauna to seek out her real mother, and uncover her lost past.

But as Fauna will learn, some truths don t want to be told.

Now includes an 8-page photo insert from Fauna's personal collection.

About this title

Review:

Haunting, poignant, and heart-wrenching. The stuff of which movies are made. --Cliff Rothman "contributor, Vanity Fair"

[A] gripping memoir. --The New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Graymalkin Media
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1631682474
• ISBN 13: 9781631682476
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336