The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison by Mikita Brottman

The Maximum Security Book Club: Reading Literature in a Men's Prison

Mikita Brottman

272 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional reflective medium-paced
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A riveting account of the two years literary scholar Mikita Brottman spent reading literature with criminals in a maximum-security men’s prison outside Baltimore, and what she learned from them—Orange Is the New Black meets Reading Lolita in Tehra...

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reflective 100%
emotional 50%
hopeful 50%
challenging 33%
informative 33%
dark 16%
funny 16%
inspiring 16%
sad 16%

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slow 11%

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