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A Grip of Time (prison slang for a very long sentence behind bars) takes listeners into a world most know little about—a maximum-security prison—and into the minds and hearts of the men who live there. These men, who are serving out life sentences for aggravated murder, join a fledgling Lifers' Writing Group started by award-winning author Lauren Kessler. Over the course of three years, meeting twice a month, the men reveal more and more about themselves, their pasts, and the alternating drama and tedium of their incarcerated lives. As they struggle with the weight of their guilt and wonder if they should hope for a future outside prison walls, Kessler struggles with the fiercely competing ideas of rehabilitation and punishment, forgiveness and blame that are at the heart of the American penal system. Gripping, intense, and heartfelt, A Grip of Time: When Prison Is Your Life shows what a lifetime with no hope of release looks like up-close.
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About Lauren Kessler
Lauren Kessler is the author of several works of narrative nonfiction, including the Washington Post bestseller Clever Girl and the Los Angeles Times bestseller The Happy Bottom Riding Club. Her journalism has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, O magazine, and The Nation. She directs the graduate program in literary nonfiction at the University of Oregon.
About Hollis McCarthy
Hollis McCarthy has narrated more than 170 books for Penguin Random House, Audible, Tantor, Highbridge, Harper-Harlequin, and ACX. A classically trained actor who fights with swords, her acting resume includes many leads in regional and off-Broadway theater, lots of Shakespeare, and TV and film. She’s a recurring guest star on CBS’s Bull and played the president of Ireland on Blue Bloods.