36 - A Book Written By an Incarcerated Or Formerly Incarcerated Person

[Siobhan]

I read Jailed for Freedom: American Women Win the Vote, which was one of the books used in the research for the musical Suffs.

[Sherri]

I read The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom. 5 stars. I have never read it.

[Denise]

I read Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

[Alicia]

Technical definition of incarcerate is “imprison or confine”. It doesn’t have to be in jail at all.

[Grace]

Herman Melville was briefly jailed after joining in a mutiny while working on a whaling ship. So any of his novels could work for those interested in classics. I highly recommend Benito Cereno.

[Michele]

Run Man Run by Chester Himes. It grabs you and doesn't let go until the end. Highly recommended.

[Laura Ruth]

I read Escape from the Pit: A Woman's Resistance in Nazi-occupied Poland, 1939-1943 by Renia Kukielka, a resistance fighter in Poland who escaped from a Nazi prison.
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