A review by anasof
Couldn't Keep It to Myself by Diane Bartholomew, Robin Cullen, Dale Griffith, Nancy Birkla, Nancy Whiteley, Brenda Medina, Wally Lamb, Tabitha Rowley

5.0

Gives a voice to criminals who experienced the terrible things written about in books like “The Bluest Eye,” but did not have the power nor resources to write about it. Almost every woman who wrote a memoir in this book had been raped in her childhood years. Had grown up in an inconsistent, unbalanced family setting. As the writing teacher, Dale Griffith wrote, “to look beneath the surface of her conviction, to the complexities that shaped her for prison,” was, to me at least, to understand their predisposition for crime. Makes you think. Makes you angry!