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the Adventures of An Accidental Prison Librarian
Dec 14, 2016PRbos rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
There were many aspects in this book that made me love it - the story, many of the players, the sharp insight, and thankfully the comic relief from such a heavy subject. I never did come to like the author but he honestly accounts his human shortcomings and thus led me to understand the central theme being seeing prisoners as us divided only by a very thin line of circumstances. "The prophets crossed the boundary into the realm of the criminal not to comfort themselves by discovering the essential humanity of the criminal - in that Hollywood way of ennobling the prisoner, of dramatizing how they're just like us - but rather to unveil the essential criminal in the human. When the prophets crossed over, they discovered just how familiar it looked, how much it resembled the world of the supposedly upright." (p362) As our "supposedly upright" world continues to crumble into chaos the line thins. I want to thank Avi for giving me this window into this aspect of society it has forever changed my viewpoint. I believe that this book is a must read!