People can't tolerate complexity. Instead, they simplify and distort. [....]
I don't plan on living a long life. Or a short life, necessarily. I have no plans at all. The thing is you keep existing whether you have a plan to do so or not, until you don't exist, and then your plans are meaningless. [....]
Retain the innocence of the most wholesome feeling you ever had in your life. Part of you stays innocent forever. That part of you is worth more than the rest.
A woman with a young child, who's left with her mother when she's sentenced to life in jail for killing the man who stalked her, finds what little support she and her son had gone when her mother unexpectedly dies in an accident. The novel shows how impersonal and ruthless the carceral justice system can be, describes what #imprisonment involves, and tells of why the system does not work especially if you're poor. #books