If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood by Gregg Olsen: Conversation Starters

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If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood by Gregg Olsen: Conversation Starters

For years, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychical terrors behind their farmhouse's closed doors in Raymond, Washington. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori formed a defiant bond, making themselves far less vulnerable than Shelly could ever imagine. Others were drawn into their mother's dark and perverse web, but the sisters found the strength and courage to flee from the escalating nightmare caused by the multiple murders.
Disturbing and nerve-wracking, If You Tell by Gregg Olsen is a survivor's story of Nikki, Sami, and Tori, who risked their lives to fight for freedom and justice from their evil mother. Sisters for life, victims no more, they found hope in the darkness that made them the resilient women they are today—loving, loved, and moving on.
After the publication date of If You Tell (December 1, 2019), the 410-paged narrative received numerous praises and critiques. It became a #1 Wall Street Journal, Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller.

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EVERY GOOD BOOK CONTAINS A WORLD FAR DEEPER
than the surface of its pages. The characters and their world come alive,
and the characters and its world still live on.
Conversation Starters is peppered with questions designed to
bring us beneath the surface of the page
and invite us into the world that lives on.

These questions can be used to create hours of conversation:

• Foster a deeper understanding of the book
• Promote an atmosphere of discussion for groups
• Assist in the study of the book, either individually or corporately
• Explore unseen realms of the book as never seen before

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Daily Books
• Release date: Nov 10, 2020
• ISBN: 9791220218641

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Introducing If You Tell

If You Tell is about three abused sisters who braved to put their mother behind bars. Michelle Shelly Knotek's daughters reached out to Olsen in 2017 and asked him to write a book about their mother for one simple reason: They want to stop her from killing again.

The now-65-year-old Shelly, convicted of second-degree murder and manslaughter, is to be released from the Washington Corrections Center for Women after serving 18 years in June 2022. She did not admit guilt and only took a plea deal. Although the case earned much attention after the crimes' reveal in 2003, Shelly's children— Nikki, Sami, and Tori — want to remind people how inhumane their mother can be and warn about her