A note from the author:

Thank you for your interest in my memoir Dancing with the Octopus. Especially in these difficult times.

 I do hope, in addition to it being a deeply rewarding read, it will help provoke vitally needed discussions around societal and domestic violence and its toll on the mental health — not only of its victims, but of those who love them. 

 If the telling of this story stops one devastating act of cruelty, or lightens the journey for one family, than it will make the years it took to shape it, worthwhile.