The Story Within Us Joshua J. Dyck Jackie Gilchrist

Jackie Gilchrist

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The Story Within Us Joshua J. Dyck Jackie GilchristThis volume features in depth, oral interviews with eleven incarcerated women, each of whom offers a narrative of her life and her reading experiences within prison walls. The women share powerful stories about their complex and diverse efforts to negotiate difficult relationships, exercise agency in restrictive circumstances, and find meaning and beauty in the midst of pain. Their shared emphases on abuse, poverty, addiction, and mental illness