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Down To The Bone: A Jail, A Journey, Four Women
350 pages, Paperback
Published August 15, 2024
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December 23, 2024
At times harrowing, at times uplifting, this account of the lives of women enduring incredible hardship is extraordinary. As a young woman, Clemence Overall resolved to learn first-hand the social and economic conditions most women in Latin America had to endure, after spending time in a crowded Guatemalan jail for resisting the sexual demands of corrupt police. The stories her fellow cellmates told motivated her to work and live in impoverished communities in Haiti and Guatemala. This remarkable account reveals what she learnt about grinding poverty, social inequality, patriarchal subjugation, and political oppression, and finally, on her return home, that many women in her own country, the USA, face similar issues.
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