In Coconut Grove: An Evening with Kathy Kleiner Rubin

Thu Feb 27 2025 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm

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In Coconut Grove: An Evening with Kathy Kleiner Rubin
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Sought-after motivational speaker Kathy Kleiner Rubin joins us for A LIGHT IN THE DARK: SURVIVING MORE THAN TED BUNDY
About this Event

Books & Books is proud to present an evening with Kathy Kleiner Rubin discussing A Light in the Dark: Surviving More than Ted Bundy (Chicago Review Press, $19.99). "In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby."


***Please note: This event will take place at the Books & Books in Coconut Grove. Tickets are FREE and books will be available for purchase at the event. Want your copy early or can't make it in-person?



About the Book:

THE FIRST BOOK BY A CONFIRMED SURVIVOR OF TED BUNDY, AND THE ONLY MEMOIR TO CHALLENGE THE POPULAR NARRATIVE OF BUNDY AS A HANDSOME KILLER WHO CHARMED HIS VICTIMS INTO TRUSTING HIM
In January 1978, I slept in my bed at the Chi Omega sorority house at Florida State University as Ted Bundy stalked nearby.


He grabbed an oak log from a stack of firewood, slipped through a back door with a broken padlock, and headed upstairs.He began twisting doorknobs. Room 9 was open, and he quietly and quickly killed one of my sleeping sorority sisters. Across the hall, he found another unlocked door and murdered again. Then, he turned the knob to my bedroom and found it was open. I remember the attack vividly. Bundy bashed me once in the head with the log and then attacked my roommate. He heard me moaning and came to finish me off. He never let his victims live. But he stopped suddenly when a bright light filled the room. He fled the sorority house and the light disappeared.
Bundy wasn’t my first brush with death, and he wasn’t my last. I’ve long been a survivor. I was born into a Cuban American family in 1957 in Florida. I had a happy childhood until I received my first death sentence at the age of thirteen. Physicians weren’t sure why I was always so exhausted and running a low-grade fever. The prognosis was grim after my left kidney started to fail. Then, a physician from Cuba saved my life with a surprise diagnosis—lupus—and treatment plan: chemotherapy. I endured chemotherapy again in my early thirties when I was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer.
This is my story of surviving three death sentences and finding love and happiness along the way. I was saved by a bright light, and I hope my story is one for people who are experiencing their own dark times. I am a victim, but I am also a survivor, and I want to speak up for all the women and girls whom Bundy murdered.
He has become a legend, and our voices have been muted or ignored. It’s time we were heard.



About the Author:

Kathy Kleiner Rubin is a motivational speaker who specializes in survivor impact and is the author of A Light in the Dark: Surviving More Than Ted Bundy (co-authored with Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi; January 14, 2025; Chicago Review Press). Kleiner has received three death sentences in her life and survived each one—childhood Lupus, serial killer Ted Bundy, and stage two breast cancer. A Light in the Dark was a starred review in Booklist, and recommended by Foreword Reviews and Publisher’s Weekly. Featured in: BBC News, Good Housekeeping, Inside Edition, NPR, People Magazine, Vanity Fair, and USA Today.


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Books & Books in Coconut Grove, 3409 Main Hwy, Coconut Grove, United States

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