Serving Time Too

A Memoir of My Son's Prison Years

By (author) Rosalind Boone Williams With Patricia Dunlavy Valenti

Paperback - £18.99

Publication date:

29 May 2019

Length of book:

188 pages

Publisher

Hamilton Books

Dimensions:

229x137mm
5x9"

ISBN-13: 9780761871477

Serving Time Too: A Memoir of My Son’s Prison Years is the universally accessible story of a mother and son: what she knew about him; what she will never understand; how she helped him, and when she needed to let him go. But Rosalind Williams’ memoir is unique because her unconditional love for Marell persisted after his conviction for murder. During his sixteen years in prison and for two-and-a-half years after his release, every aspect of Rosalind’s life was affected by her fidelity to him and by the failures of a penal system tinged with racial and class inequities.

Rosalind tells a personal story with enormous significance to society. She is an unflinchingly fair, sometimes self-critical narrator who reflects upon the enticements of violence and crime, especially for African American young men, despite the values they are taught at home. Her experiences demonstrate the damage that crime and punishment inflict upon those good people who stand by loved ones during and after incarceration. This memoir will comfort anyone related to the 2.3 million people behind bars in the United States. Others will hear a call to reform and, more importantly, they will feel compassion for the offender’s family, and the offender.

No other book in print takes Rosalind’s perspective on the problems of crime and incarceration.
Serving Time Too reveals a mother’s struggle to minimize the suffering and foster the moral growth of her incarcerated son while turning her fierce critical intelligence on the penal system and herself. This book offers comforting advice to the countless families of people in prison and is an eye-opener for the rest of us.