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

by Mikita Brottman

Book Overview

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 Tehran.

On sabbatical from teaching literature to undergraduates, and wanting to educate a different kind of student, Mikita Brottman starts a book club with a group of convicts from the Jessup Correctional...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062384341
• ISBN13: 9780062384348
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 7.9"