Inside This Place, Not Of It: Narratives from Women

Compiled and edited by Robin Levi and Ayelet Waldman (Buy online)

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Surviving Justice: America's Wrongfully Convicted and Exonerated

Voices from the Storm: The People of New Orleans on Hurricane Katrina and Its Aftermath

Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives

En Las Sombras de Estados Unidos: Narraciones de Inmigrantes Indocumentados

Out of Exile: The Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan

Hope Deferred: Narratives of Zimbabwean Lives

Nowhere to Be Home: Narratives from Survivors of Burma's Military Regime

Patriot Acts: Narratives of Post-9/11 Injustice

Inside This Place, Not Of It: Narratives from Women's Prisons

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