The Prisoner's Wife: A Memoir - Hardcover

Bandele, Asha

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0684850737 ISBN 13: 9780684850733

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1999

Synopsis

In this memoir, a young African-American poet describes how she fell in love with and married a man serving a prison sentence for murder and explores the redemptive and healing power of love.

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Review:

Angela Y. Davis asha bandele tells the story of a love that flourishes in the constricted space between freedom and captivity. Ironically, the captive whom she loves helps her to extricate herself from her own emotional prison. In celebrating a triumph of the heart, "The Prisoner's Wife" also challenges the ideologies spawned by the prison industrial complex. It compels us to imagine a future in which prisons would cease to be spurious guarantors of security in the "free world." This is a powerful and provocative book -- everyone should read it.

From the Publisher:

From Booklist, starred review
asha bandele's "writing soars with emotion. And the reader's emotions soar as well, not because of a shared experience but because her highly polished and skillful writing makes one feel her pain and joy. This is a romantic but realistic story, told with a directness and honesty that makes us know that however impossible the problems asha and Rashid face, we can question neither her motives nor sanity."

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0684850737
• ISBN 13: 9780684850733
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 219