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Bridget Kinsella
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Visiting Life: Women Doing Time on the Outside |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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272 |
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2007-06-12 |
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0307338363 |
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Crown |
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0.85 pounds |
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5.5 x 8.3 x 1.1 inches |
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1 |
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When a friend who taught creative writing at a maximum-security prison asked Bridget Kinsella to read the work of one of his best students, she readily agreed. As a publishing professional, Kinsella was used to getting manuscripts from all sorts of sources. Who knows? she told herself. Maybe I can help this talented inmate get his work published. She had no idea that her correspondence with a convicted murderer serving life without parole would lead to a relationship that would change her life forever. Why in the world would anyone get involved with a prison inmate?
In this beautifully written, brutally honest memoir, Kinsella shares how she stumbled into a relationship with a lifer and became part of a sorority she never thought she’d join. Over the course of three years, she spends time with and ultimately befriends the wives, girlfriends, and mothers of some inmates at Pelican Bay. On this unexpected journey, she learns of the hurdles, heartbreaks, and hopes they have for their relationships as she experiences a connection with someone who helps heal her own wounds.
As the United States continues to incarcerate convicted criminals for increasingly long periods of time, our prison rolls swell to unprecedented levels—more than two million today—as does the number of women and children whose lives are thrown into limbo and who live for their next “visiting time.” Through the lens of her own unlikely experience, Kinsella examines those impacted by crime and punishment with keen observation, candor, and compassion.
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noddybobump (USA: TX) (2007/05/14):
No woman ever expects that they will develop a relationship with an inmate confined to prison for life, and especially not a woman like Bridget Kinsella, but Kinsella does just that. A successful journalist, Kinsella enters prison as a visitor for the first time to help a convicted murderer publish his writing. Her disdain for the women visiting their men in prison soon turns to curiosity, and then, when she becomes emotionally attached to the man she has been visiting, then turns to empathy. This book is her account of the relationships she encountered with not only the man she was visiting, but the women who live their lives in a limbo, with hopes and dreams of someday having the relationship they have always wanted
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