The love prison made (and unmade): my story
β Scribed by Ebony Roberts
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 156 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
- City
- United States.
- ISBN
- 0062916831
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β¦ Synopsis
With echoes of Just Mercy and An American Marriage, a remarkable memoir of a woman who falls in love with an incarcerated man**-- a poignant story of hope and disappointment that lays bare the toll prison takes not only on those behind bars, but on their families and relationships.**
Ebony's parents were high school sweethearts and married young. By the time Ebony was born, the marriage was disintegrating. As a little girl she witnessed her parents' brutal verbal and physical fights, fueled by her father's alcoholism. Then her father tried to kill her mother.
Those experiences drastically affected the way Ebony viewed love and set the pattern for her future romantic relationships. Despite being an educated and strong-minded woman determined not to repeat the mistakes of her parents--she would have a fairytale love--Ebony found herself drawn to bad-boys: men who cheated; men who verbally abused her; men who disappointed...
β¦ Subjects
United States
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