Full name: True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall

Author: Mark Salzman Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, Non Fiction, Memoirs Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780375727610 0375727612

In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author Iron and Silk and Lying Awake, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.'s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him that he began to teach there regularly. In voices of indelible emotional presence, the boys write about what led them to crime and about the lives that stretch ahead of them behind bars. We see them coming to terms with their crime-ridden pasts and searching for a reason to believe in their future selves. Insightful, comic, honest and tragic, True Notebooks is an object lesson in the redemptive power of writing. Similar books: Handling the Truth by Beth Kephart The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr It All Changed in an Instant by Larry Smith Mentor by Tom Grimes Hungry Heart by Jennifer Weiner A Thousand Naked Strangers by Kevin Hazzard Down the Rabbit Hole by Holly Madison The Big Tiny by Dee Williams Once More We Saw Stars by Jayson Greene The Exact Same Moon by Jeanne Marie Laskas Naturally Tan by Tan France Toil & Trouble by Augusten Burroughs The Camera My Mother Gave Me by Susanna Kaysen Girl Logic by Iliza Shlesinger Still Writing by Dani Shapiro On Writing by Stephen King When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Born a Crime by Trevor Noah The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Garlic and Sapphires by Ruth Reichl