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Bookin' in the Big House: What I Learned Leading a Women's Prison Book Club
Pat Cunningham Devoto had specific hopes for the women imprisoned at the Montgomery Women's Facility who participated...
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Pat Cunningham Devoto had specific hopes for the women imprisoned at the Montgomery Women's Facility who participated in her book club for the better part of seven years. She hoped the books they read would give some respite from their daily prison life, and, at the same time, hoped the individual members might gain valuable knowledge that would have a positive impact on their future. Doesn't that sound lovely?
Instead, Devoto learned how to "brew" a batch of beer--right under the guard's noses; how to assume a stone-faced expression while a guard berated her because she brought books--to the book club; what it's like to have a wedding, complete with trimmings, while imprisoned; how to anonymously pester the parole board from the prison phones; how to make hand sanitizer punch; and how to use PREA cards in the exact opposite way they are meant to be used. In other words, the best way for a self-proclaimed naïve, middle-class, law-abiding novice like Devoto to learn how to be a crook was to go to prison. But in the beginning, of course, she hadn't a clue. While most of her teachers are now gone, in one way or another, Bookin' in the Big House is Pat's remembrance of them and of the place they lived.Author: Pat Cunningham Devoto
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 03/15/2026
Pages: 190
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.44d
ISBN: 9781588385673
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 01/19/2026
About the Author
PAT CUNNINGHAM DEVOTO is a one-time high school history teacher and a member of the USTA Southern Tennis Hall of Fame. Pat is the author of five novels, including My Last Days as Roy Rogers, Out of the Night That Covers Me, and The Summer We Got Saved. She lives and writes in both the Atlanta Metro and Alabama.
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