Belly Full of Stones: a collection of voices after incarceration

Belly Full of Stones: a collection of voices after incarceration

Written by a professor who teaches in a women's prison, Arnold realizes the consequences of incarceration are deep and wide. This book showcases vignettes of previously incarcerated women who are surviving the aftermath. Glimpses into their previous lives and their struggles during incarceration will likely cause the reader heartache, but the tenacity of living life after will cause readers to cheer and begin to truly understand a perspective that may be unfamiliar. The book also tracks the footsteps of incarceration from the point of the teacher who steps behind bars once a week to sit face-to-face with not just a harsh reality, but with joyful surprise. A Belly Full of Stones portrays the grit of mass incarceration at a personal level with the hope of transformation.