Contents: I. 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 -- II. Gifts my family gave me : The captain / Kathleen Wyatt -- A brother's gift / Jennifer Rich -- The rainbow ring / Carmen Ramos -- Pictures of a daughter,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperluxe 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 810.8 ILLSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2007