Voice of Witness Presents

Inside this Place, Not of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons

When
Wed Oct 17, 2012
Where
DIESEL, A Bookstore
Time
7:00pm
Tags
Literary Arts

Description

Join best-selling author Ayelet Waldman, Robin Levi—Human Rights director for Justice Now—and Voice of Witness for a reading and discussion from their book Inside This Place, Not Of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons, which illustrates the stories of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women across the U.S.

Inside This Place, Not of It was published by Voice of Witness, a non-profit book series that depicts human rights crises through the stories of the men and women who experience them. The Voice of Witness Education Program uses books from the series to bring socially relevant, oral history-based curricula into U.S. schools. To learn more about Voice of Witness, please visit http://www.voiceofwitness.org.

Praise for Inside This Place, Not of It:

“Inside This Place, Not of It is precisely the kind of book we need now... I will never forget these women, or this book.” — Susan Straight, author of Take One Candle Light A Room

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Location

  1. DIESEL, A Bookstore
    5433 College Ave, Oakland, CA