BOOKIN' IN THE BIG HOUSE: What I Learned Leading a Women's Prison Book Club

The author had specific hopes for the women imprisoned at the Montgomery Women's Facility who participated in her book club. Instead, the self-proclaimed naive, middle-class, law-abiding novice learned how to be a crook in prison. While most of her teachers are now gone, this is her remembrance of them and of the place they lived. Illus.