{"product_id":"true-notebooks-a-writers-year-at-juvenile-hall-9780375727610","title":"True Notebooks: A Writer's Year at Juvenile Hall","description":"In 1997 Mark Salzman, bestselling author \u003cb\u003eIron and Silk\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eLying Awake\u003c\/b\u003e, paid a reluctant visit to a writing class at L.A.'s Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for violent teenage offenders, many of them charged with murder. What he found so moved and astonished him that he began to teach there regularly. In voices of indelible emotional presence, the boys write about what led them to crime and about the lives that stretch ahead of them behind bars. We see them coming to terms with their crime-ridden pasts and searching for a reason to believe in their future selves. Insightful, comic, honest and tragic, \u003cb\u003eTrue Notebooks \u003c\/b\u003eis an object lesson in the redemptive power of writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMark Salzman is the author of \u003cb\u003eIron \u0026amp; Silk\u003c\/b\u003e, an account of his two years in China; \u003cb\u003eLost in Place\u003c\/b\u003e, a memoir; and the novels \u003cb\u003eThe Laughing Sutra, The Soloist\u003c\/b\u003e, and \u003cb\u003eLying Awake\u003c\/b\u003e. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, the filmmaker Jessica Yu, and their daughter, Ava.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50911226495250,"sku":"9780375727610","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6d635b71-3eab-4ac8-96d9-de3023051cd7.jpg?v=1738734343","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/true-notebooks-a-writers-year-at-juvenile-hall-9780375727610","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}