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The future of our communities depends on women like her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e[A] stirring and ultimately heartbreaking book on what it means to leave prison . . . A remarkably balanced triumph of immersion journalism.--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e[This] book should take its place among [the] classics of urban sociology.--\u003ci\u003eMother Jones\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBracingly compassionate, quietly outraged.--\u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e[It] will keep you reading through the night .This book is a triumph of storyte\u003ci\u003elling.--Alex Kotlowitz, author of There are No Children Here \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Other Side of the Rive\u003c\/i\u003er \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003edn0 Jennifer Gonnerman is a prizewinning staff writer for \u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice\u003c\/i\u003e. 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