Raw personal essays from women in a maximum-security prison workshop, confronting trauma, addiction, and hard-won hope.
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Raw personal essays from women in a maximum-security prison workshop, confronting trauma, addiction, and hard-won hope.
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In 2003 Wally Lamb—the author of two of the most beloved novels of our time, She's Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True—published Couldn't Keep It to Myself, 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. The New York Times described ...
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will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Explicit sexual content including assault accounts in personal testimonies
Violence & gore
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Graphic violence tied to abuse, crime, and prison experiences
Profanity
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Strong language appears in raw inmate personal narratives
Substance use
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Addiction and drug abuse as major paths to crime and prison
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Passing spiritual hope themes; title echoes a gospel hymn
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Central critique of prisons, justice system, and rehabilitation
Self-harm / suicide
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Self-loathing, despair, and emotional crisis in several accounts
Abuse & suffering
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Pervasive domestic violence, sexual abuse, and childhood trauma
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