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Love in the Time of Incarceration : Five Stories of Dating, Sex, and Marriage in America's Prisons by Elizabeth Greenwood (2023, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherGallery Books

ISBN-101501158422

ISBN-139781501158421

eBay Product ID (ePID)10059019936

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Book TitleLove in the Time of Incarceration : Five Stories of Dating, Sex, and Marriage in America's Prisons

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLove & Romance, Penology, Criminology

Publication Year2023

GenreFamily & Relationships, Social Science

AuthorElizabeth Greenwood

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight8.3 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Reviews"Moving seamlessly between the intimate and the institutional, [Greenwood] remains alert to the injustices of the system while capturing the romance of her subjects' stories." -- The New Yorker, "Prison love, Greenwood's complex and thoughtful investigative journalism reveals, is equal in a very real sense--both sides are intent upon delivering what the other needs. While burdened by a thousand obstacles, bureaucracies, and the very real physical separation of walls, barbed wire and armed guards, they never quite lose their focus on each other. It is somewhat beguiling, this possibility of deep connection, which requires time and paper and a sort of intentionality that the free world takes for granted. It is ironic, too, that it is the kept apart, the imprisoned, who would reveal the necessity of it." -- The Baffler, "Thorough, empathetic immersive journalism, Love Lockdown is a testament to the power of action, belief, and hope--and urges us to rethink the toll of mass incarceration on loved ones who live free, but with force fields around their hearts and lives." --Sarah Weinman, author of The Real Lolita and editor of Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit & Obsession, "An empathetic and well-characterized book that will add complexity to debates about mass incarceration." -- Kirkus Reviews

SynopsisOver the course of five years, journalist Elizabeth Greenwood followed the ups and downs of five couples who met while incarcerated. In Love in the Time of Incarceration, she pulls back the curtain on the boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands, and wives supporting some of the 2.3 million Americans in prisons. Greenwood infiltrates spaces many of us have only heard whispers of-she sits across a visiting room table from a woman involved in a double homicide and walks a bride down the aisle at a prison wedding. She dines with couples who have weathered decades of separation. Running the gamut of sexual orientation, race, and circumstances of incarceration, these couples illustrate just a few of the myriad experiences people face as they navigate the corrections system. Greenwood's compassionate examination of love in the prison industrial complex will change the way you look at American prisons and deepen the way you think about love., This evocative and gripping investigative look into romantic relationships between incarcerated people and their spouses on the outside "is impossible to put down" ( The Globe and Mail , Toronto). What is it like to fall in love with someone in prison? Over the course of five years, Elizabeth Greenwood followed the ups and downs of five couples who met during incarceration. In Love in the Time of Incarceration , she pulls back the curtain on the lives of the husbands and wives supporting some of the 2.3 million people in prisons around the United States. In the vein of Modern Love , this book shines a light on how these relationships reflect the desire and delusion we all experience in our romantic pairings. Love in the Time of Incarceration infiltrates spaces many of us have only heard whispers of--from conjugal visits to prison weddings to relationships between the incarcerated themselves. "A tour de force of empathetic nonfiction storytelling" (Vanessa Grigoriadis, author of Blurred Lines ), Love in the Time of Incarceration changes the way you look at the American prison system and perhaps relationships in general. Previously published as Love Lockdown .