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Serving Time Too Rosalind Boone Williams

Serving Time Too By Rosalind Boone Williams

Serving Time Too by Rosalind Boone Williams


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Serving Time Too: A Memoir of My Son's Prison Years reveals how a mother's loving fidelity to her son throughout his incarceration and after his release makes her an unintended victim of crime and punishment. Millions have lived this story, but Williams is the first to present it in print.

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Serving Time Too: A Memoir of My Son's Prison Years by Rosalind Boone Williams

Serving Time Too: A Memoir of My Son's Prison Years is the universally accessible story of a mother and son: what she knew about him; what she will never understand; how she helped him, and when she needed to let him go. But Rosalind Williams' memoir is unique because her unconditional love for Marell persisted after his conviction for murder. During his sixteen years in prison and for two-and-a-half years after his release, every aspect of Rosalind's life was affected by her fidelity to him and by the failures of a penal system tinged with racial and class inequities. Rosalind tells a personal story with enormous significance to society. She is an unflinchingly fair, sometimes self-critical narrator who reflects upon the enticements of violence and crime, especially for African American young men, despite the values they are taught at home. Her experiences demonstrate the damage that crime and punishment inflict upon those good people who stand by loved ones during and after incarceration. This memoir will comfort anyone related to the 2.3 million people behind bars in the United States. Others will hear a call to reform and, more importantly, they will feel compassion for the offender's family, and the offender. No other book in print takes Rosalind's perspective on the problems of crime and incarceration.

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Serving Time Too reveals a mother's struggle to minimize the suffering and foster the moral growth of her incarcerated son while turning her fierce critical intelligence on the penal system and herself. This book offers comforting advice to the countless families of people in prison and is an eye-opener for the rest of us. -- Bell Gale Chevigny, Professor Emerita of Literature, Purchase College, State University of New York, editor, Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing
In Serving Time Too, Rosalind Williams recounts with overwhelming love and compassion the sixteen years her son, Marell, was incarcerated for murder. Accompanied throughout by her stalwart husband, James, and her understanding daughters, Kesia and Sidnee, Mrs. Williams never faltered in her focus on Marell's welfare as he endured cycles of total isolation and routine menial jobs in a series of correctional facilities and prisons throughout North Carolina. This masterful narrative, an unparalleled spiritual autobiography filled with vivid detail and judicious insight, is riveting from beginning to end. -- Patrick J. Samway, Professor Emeritus of English, St. Joseph's University, former literary editor, America.
A gripping account of a family tragedy told with eloquence and honesty, Rosalind Williams's Serving Time Too could be any parent's story in today's America. This is a compelling testimonial to the perseverance, faith, and love of a mother engaged in a desperate struggle to sustain her son enmeshed in the relentless cogs of the criminal justice system. -- William Leake Andrews, E. Maynard Adams Distinguished Professor of Literature, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, author, Slavery and Class in the American South

About Rosalind Boone Williams

Rosalind Boone Williams was the director of a municipal recreation center where she dedicated her career to mentoring youth. She is an avid amateur photographer and writer of poetry and short stories that express compassion for those in difficult situations. Patricia Dunlavy Valenti is professor emerita in Department of English and Theatre at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. She has published two biographies.

Table of Contents

Section I: Visiting The Jail, February 4, 1996 to October 9, 1997 1. That Night 2. Looking Back 3. That First Week 4. That First Month 5. That Spring 6. That Summer 7. That Fall, the Holidays, and Another Year Begins 8. Partings Section II: Visiting the Prisons, October 10, 1997 to May 28, 2012 1. Transition 2. Prison for Real 3. Opportunities Lost 4. The Penitentiary 5. The Dark Shadow 6. Still Standing 7. Illness and Death 8. Secrets 9. Sunday Dinners Again 10. Too Much Freedom? 11. Risky Relationships 12. Home Visits Section III: The Prison After Prison, May 29, 2012 to December 1, 2014 1. Parole 2. After Parole 3. Free at Last Afterward and Acknowledgments About the Authors

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CIN0761871470G
9780761871477
0761871470
Serving Time Too: A Memoir of My Son's Prison Years by Rosalind Boone Williams
Used - Good
Paperback
University Press of America
2019-05-29
188
N/A
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