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Heartbreaking...moving and well-reported...Revelatory. -- The New York Times Book Review (Front Page)<br><br> [A] stirring and ultimately heartbreaking book on what it means to leave prison . . . A remarkably balanced triumph of immersion journalism. -- The Washington Post <br><br> [This] book should take its place among [the] classics of urban sociology. -- Mother Jones <br><br> Bracingly compassionate, quietly outraged. -- Village Voice <br><br> [It] will keep you reading through the night ....This book is a triumph of storyte lling. --Alex Kotlowitz, author of There are No Children Here and The Other Side of the Rive r<br>

Heartbreaking...moving and well-reported...Revelatory. -- The New York Times Book Review (Front Page) [A] stirring and ultimately heartbreaking book on what it means to leave prison . . . A remarkably balanced triumph of immersion journalism. -- The Washington Post [This] book should take its place among [the] classics of urban sociology. -- Mother Jones Bracingly compassionate, quietly outraged. -- Village Voice [It] will keep you reading through the night ....This book is a triumph of storyte lling. --Alex Kotlowitz, author of There are No Children Here and The Other Side of the Rive r

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Jennifer Gonnerman is a prizewinning staff writer for The Village Voice. She has also written for The New York Times Magazine and many other publications. Her article on which Life on the Outside is based won the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2001.

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