A journalist volunteers at a men's medium‑security prison and spends eighteen months leading a small, unsupervised book club. Meetings become a rare place of safety and steady conversation for inmates who prize books as connection to life beyond the walls.

The narrative follows six club members—biker, gunman, drug dealers and robbers—who kept journals and spoke openly about characters, choices and regret. Discussions of titles from classic fiction to contemporary nonfiction become a lens for identity, loss, anger and the work of rebuilding a life after release.

Alongside the men is program coordinator Carol Finlay, whose efforts to expand the initiative across Canada and into the United States show how reading can create structure, dialogue and small chances for reintegration.

Why readers turn to this book

• Intimate, character-driven reporting
• Explores literature as a catalyst for empathy
• Insight into prison life, rehabilitation and reentry

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