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I'll fly away [electronic resource] : further testimonies from the women of York Prison / edited and introduced by Wally Lamb.

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Pymble, NSW ; New York, NY : HarperCollins e-books, 2007.

Prisoners' writings, American -- Connecticut.

Women prisoners -- Connecticut.

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9780061497605 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)

0061497606 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)

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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