I Am Not a Juvenile Delinquent: How Poetry Changed a Group of At-Risk Young Women (Lessons in Rehabilitation and Letting It Go)

by Sharon Charde

Book Overview

The #metoo movement, particularly the horrific Larry Nasser abuse, shows with frightening clarity the vulnerability of young women to male predators; all the Touchtone girls I encountered suffered similar or worse fates. The book is a pilgrimage, a quest story, divided into five sections. Part I explores the authors first year at the facility, the difficulty and eventual success of establishing my group in such a chaotic and contradictory culture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1642502138
• ISBN13: 9781642502138
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Tma Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"