Beyond slogans or strategy, we are left with people, in all our imperfections and possibilities. 'Walidah Imarisha gives us an unvarnished take on prison abolition. English, New York Times best-selling author of Where the Bodies Were Buried and The Westies This book is a bracing, clear-eyed exploration of one of the most important issues of our time: the growing incarceration rate in the US, and the consequences of this for citizens both inside and outside prison walls.' -T.J. 'A highly personalized and intimate portrait by a courageous writer who goes beyond clich's and platitudes. The result is a nuanced and deeply personal analysis that allows readers to connect emotionally with the lives of people caught up within, and often destroyed by, our criminal justice system. Imarisha doesn't flinch as she guides us through the difficulties and contradictions, eschewing theory for a much messier reality. Together they explore the questions: People can do unimaginable damage to one another-and then what? What do we as a society do? What might redemption look like? Imarisha, dealing with the complexities of her own experience with sexual assault and accountability, brings us behind prison walls to visit her adopted brother Kakamia and his fellow inmate Jimmy 'Mac' McElroy, a member of the brutal Irish gang the Westies. The three lives in this creative nonfiction account are united by the presence of actual harm-sometimes horrific violence. And the prison system has become the heart of America.-Walidah Imarisha, from the Introduction.Īngels with Dirty Faces is no romanticized tale of crime and punishment. This is the heart of this country's prison system. When I saw for the first time (but not the last) a mother sobbing and clutching her son when visiting hours were up, only to be physically pried off and escorted out by guards, I knew nothing about that made me safer. The soccer book of the decade.There was a time I believed prisons existed to rehabilitate people, to make our communities safer. 'Here, for the first time in decades, is a top-notch soccer book on how soccer is actually played on the field.' - Simon Kuper In Angels with Dirty Faces, Jonathan Wilson chronicles the operatic drama of Argentinian soccer: the appropriation of the British game, the golden age of la nuestra, the exuberant style of playing that developed as Juan PerÃ³ed the country, a hardening into the brutal methods of anti-fÃº, the fusion of beauty and efficacy under C'sar Luis Menotti, and the emergence of all-time greats. Argentina's rich, volatile history - by turns sublime and ruthlessly pragmatic - is mirrored in the style and swagger of its national and club sides. Perhaps it's because the country lives and breathes the game, its theories, and its myths.

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