Book summary

In 1989, Trisha Meili was attacked while jogging after work in New York City's Central Park. She suffered serious wounds, and, when found, was near death. Her case stunned the city, and the city's tabloids tracked the arrest and trial of several youths who were found to have been in the park that night. Until publication of this book, she was known to the public only as "the Central Park jogger." Here, Meili writes of her long road to recovery, the small steps that meant a lot, and the many people who helped her along the way.

Media reviews

''I AM THE CENTRAL PARK JOGGER is a very personal book. Told without anger or resentment, it will comfort and inspire anyone who has suffered a horrible trauma -- and many who haven't. Whether Meili's conclusions about the mind-body connection, her rapture on learning how to eat a raisin 'with awareness,' are helpful or embarrassing is beside the point. They are both. And even if they are mostly the latter, the mere fact that she is here to write them is remarkable."