July 2024 Books Through Bars pick: Voices of the Incarcerated--only $20 this month

For Freebird's 20th anniversary--and with the help of Scribner/Simon & Schuster--
​$20 gets three books sent to incarcerated readers (61% off retail)
With special thanks to Scribner (the publisher of these three titles), we are able to focus the bundle on writers who themselves have experienced incarceration. Mitchell Jackson began his acclaimed literary career shortly after being paroled from an Oregon prison in 1998. He is now a Pulitzer Prize-winning essayist, novelist, and memoirist, whose book Survival Math: Notes on an All-American Family explores gangs and guns, near-death experiences, sex work, masculinity, composite fathers, the concept of “hustle,” and the destructive power of addiction—all framed within his personal story, his family, and his community. 
Curtis Dawkins is currently serving a life sentence in Michigan, where he has been actively writing and publishing fiction since the mid-2000s. Those stories were collected into the 2017 book, The Graybar Hotel, critically praised for revealing the idiosyncrasies, tedium, and desperation of long-term incarceration—a searing description of the struggle to keep one's soul alive in the face of daunting daily challenges.

For purchasing the above two titles, Scribner will match with a copy of John Edgar Wideman's classic work, Brothers and Keepers. A gripping, unsettling account, Brothers and Keepers weighs the bonds of blood, affection, and guilt that connect Wideman and his brother and measures the distance that lies between them. “If you care at all about brotherhood and dignity…this is a must-read book” (The Denver Post). In includes an afterword by his brother Robert Wideman, released in 2019 after more than fifty years in prison.

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BTB Bundle: Voices of the Incarcerated (Jackson, Dawkins, Wideman)

$51.00 $20.00

Freebird's July 2024 picks include Mitchell Jackson's Survival Math, Curtis Dawkins's The Graybar Hotel, and John Edgar Wideman's Brothers and Keepers: $20 for three books

Please note that when Square processes your order they describe it as a "digital delivery". That does not refer to way the books will be delivered to incarcerated readers. Your purchase will go towards NYC Books Through Bars fulfilling requests with physical copies of the aforementioned titles.

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