Bridget Kinsella

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Bridget Kinsella


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Bridget Kinsella is the author of Visiting Life: Women Doing Time on the Outside .

When a friend who taught creative writing at a maximum-security prison asked Bridget Kinsella to read the work of one of his best students, she readily agreed. As a publishing professional, Kinsella was used to getting manuscripts from all sorts of sources. Who knows? she told herself. Maybe I can help this talented inmate get his work published. She had no idea that her correspondence with a convicted murderer serving life without parole would lead to a relationship that would change her life forever. Why in the world would anyone get involved with a prison inmate?

In this beautifully written, brutally honest memoir, Kinsella shares how she stumbled into a
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Average rating: 3.09 · 158 ratings · 44 reviews · 3 distinct worksSimilar authors
Visiting Life: Women Doing ...

3.10 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions
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Visiting Life

3.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions
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Visiting Life: Good, Middle...

2.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions
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“Happiness, you make them” was her reply. My right words at the right time, I told Ms. Thomas during the interview, now several years after Grandma’s death. “With her accent and broken English she misspoke, making happiness plural,” I explained to Ms. Thomas. “And I like that, because it is good to be reminded that happiness is not just one thing and is always of your making.”
Bridget Kinsella, Visiting Life



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