The lost chapters : finding recovery and renewal one book at a time
In 2014, novelist Leslie Schwartz was sentenced to 90 days in Los Angeles County Jail for a DUI and battery of an officer. After more than a decade clean and sober, Schwartz had a 414-day relapse into alcohol and drug addiction. The damage she inflicted that year upon her friends, her husband, her teenage daughter, and herself was nearly impossible to fathom. Incarceration might have ruined her altogether, if not for the stories that sustained her while she was behind bars--both the artful tales in the books she read while there, and, more immediately, the stories of her fellow inmates. With classics like Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome to contemporary accounts like Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken, Schwartz's reading list is woven together with visceral recollections of both her daily humiliations and small triumphs within the county jail system. Through the stories of others--whether rendered on the page or whispered in a jail cell--she learned powerful lessons about how to banish shame, use guilt for good, level her grief, and find the lost joy and magic of her astonishing life. Told in vivid, unforgettable prose, The Lost Chapters uncovers the nature of shame, rage, and love, and how instruments of change and redemption come from the unlikeliest of places.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525534631
- ISBN: 0525534636
- Physical Description: 251 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Blue Rider Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC, 2018.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Subtitle on dust jacket: Reclaiming my life, one book at a time. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Processing in -- Pregnant module -- Pregnant module -- Exit module -- EBI module : dayroom -- EBI module : lockup -- EBI module : lockup -- EBI module : last days -- Processing out. |
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Genre: | Autobiographies. |
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