Attacked, raped, savagely beaten and left for dead, a woman is found in Central Park. She is comatose, unable to breathe, her skull is fractured, and she has lost so much blood that doctors can't understand why she is still alive. For the first time since that brutal assault in 1989 -- a crime that stunned New Yorkers, the nation, and the world -- the Central Park Jogger reveals her identity and tells the story you haven't heard, the journey of a young woman who turned horrifying violence and certain death into extraordinary healing and triumphant life. It is a story of human strength and transcendent recovery that involved a family, a hospital, a city -- in fact, an entire nation -- of supporters. Book jacket.