Author Description

With this achingly intimate work, asha bandele has won the admiration of such trailblazing luminaries as Nikki Giovanni, Angela Davis, and Junot Diaz. A lyrical masterpiece of unfiltered emotion and insight, The Prisoner's Wife is one of the most resonant and wholly beautiful memoirs to come along in years, and recently appeared on Emerge magazine's bestseller list.How did a talented college student fall in love with and marry a man serving 25-to-life for murder? At a time when one in four black men are behind bars, asha bandele shatters the myths of prisoners' wives and tells a story of human connection in the darkest of circumstances. With unflinching candor and extraordinary bravery, bandele delivers an extraordinary book that is as much about the universal qualities of love as it is about race, violence, and life behind bars.