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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Wally Lamb; Women of York Correctional Institution. |
| ISBN: | 0061369225 9780061369223 |
| OCLC Number: | 157000462 |
| Description: | xii, 258 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | When I was a child -- Florida memories / Bonnie Jean Foreshaw -- Kidnapped / Robin Ledbetter -- Shhh, don't tell / Deborah Ranger -- In the mood / Savannah -- Tinker bell / Brendalis Medina -- One Saturday morning / Chasity C. West -- Gifts my family gave me -- The captain / Kathleen Wyatt -- A brother's gift / Jennifer Rich -- The rainbow ring / Carmen Ramos -- Pictures of a daughter, viewed in prison / Christina MacNaughton -- Under-where? / Lynne M. Friend -- Why I write / Careen Jennings -- Lavender and vanilla / Kimberly Walker -- A gift / Robin Ledbetter -- Broken dolls and marionettes -- Broken doll / Lynda Gardner -- No is not a word / Christina MacNaughton -- Wishes / Charissa Willette -- The marionette / Lynne M. Friend -- Falling / Lynne Ledbnetter -- Crime and punishment -- Lost and found / Roberta Schwartz -- The chase / Brendalis Medina -- Prom queen / Jennifer Rich -- Down on the farm / Kelly Donnelly -- Big girl jail / Robin Ledbetter -- Wasted time / Lisa White -- Serpents / Robin Ledbetter -- The lights are flickering, again / Susan Budlong Cole -- Just another death / Christina MacNaughton -- I'll fly away -- My three fates / Chasity C. West -- Dance of the willow / Kelly Donnelly -- I won't burn alone / Brendalis Medina -- Seasons' rhythms / Kelly Donnelly -- Flight of the bumblebee / Kathleen Wyatt -- Reawakening through nature: a prison reflection / Barbara Parsons. |
| Responsibility: | edited and introduced by Wally Lamb. |
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Abstract:
In 2003 author Wally Lamb published a collection of essays by the students in his writing workshop at the maximum-security York Correctional Institution, Connecticut's only prison for women. Writing, Lamb discovered, was a way for these women to confront painful memories, face their fears and their failures, and begin to imagine better lives. One critic described the book as "gut-tearing tales ... the unvarnished truth." In this new volume, twenty women--eighteen inmates and two of Lamb's cofacilitators--share the experiences that shaped them from childhood and that haunt and inspire them to this day. These portraits, vignettes, and stories depict with soul-baring honesty how and why women land in prison--and what happens once they get there. The stories are as varied as the individuals who wrote them, but each testifies to the same core truth: the universal value of knowing oneself and changing one's life through the power of the written word.--From publisher description.
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