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  • The Prison Book Club

  • Auteur(s): Ann Walmsley
  • Narrateur(s): Eileen Barrett
  • Durée: 9 h et 9 min
  • 3,9 out of 5 stars (8 évaluations)

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The Prison Book Club

Auteur(s): Ann Walmsley
Narrateur(s): Eileen Barrett
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While living in London, Ann Walmsley was brutally mugged just outside her own home. The attack shook her belief in the fundamental goodness of people and left her with PTSD. A few years later, now returned to Canada, her friend, Carol Finlay, asked her to participate in a book club in a men's medium security prison. Ann's curiosity and desire to be of service eventually overcame her anxiety and fear, and she signed on.

For 18 months Ann accompanied Carol to a remote building at Collins Bay, meeting with heavily tattooed book club members without the presence of guards or security cameras. Unlike the book clubs she participated in outside of prison, there were no wine and cheese, no nice furnishings, no superficial chat about jobs or recent vacations. Yet the prison book club proved to be a place to share ideas, learn about each other, and regain humanity.

For the inmates the books were rare prized possessions and the meetings oases of safety and respites from isolation in an otherwise hostile environment. And their responses to the books were sincere and multifaceted. Discussions about the obstacles the characters faced revealed glimpses of their own struggles, sometimes devastating and sometimes comic. Reading a wide variety of books - The Grapes of Wrath, The Cellist of Sarajevo, Outliers, Infidel, etc. - the discussions became launching points for revealing conversations about loss, anger, redemption, heroism, and loneliness.

In The Prison Book Club, Walmsley follows six particularly involved book club members, asking them to keep journals and participate in candid one-on-one conversations. Ann portrays these inmates - Graham, the biker; Frank, the gunman; Ben and Dread, the Jamaicans; and the robber duo, Gaston and Peter - with sensitivity and understanding and follows their lives as they leave prison. And Ann herself grows, overcoming her fear and reconciling her knowledge of their crimes with the individuals themselves. Woven throughout is the compassionate determination of Carol Finlay as she works tirelessly to expand her program across Canada and into the United States.

Anyone who loves books knows that books can change one's life, and this is true for the inmates, too. The men are changed by the books, and in turn the men change Ann. This experience allowed her to move beyond her position as a victim. Indeed the experience was so moving that she came to realize that given the choice, she'd forsake the company of her privileged friends and their comfortable book club and make the two-hour drive to Collins Bay.

Eileen Barrett's friendly voice makes this uplifting audiobook a joy to listen to. She embodies the author's sincerity and provides just the right amount of characterization so that the listener can distinguish the various individuals Ann introduces us to.

©2015 Ann Walmsley (P)2016 Post Hypnotic Press Inc.

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