Prison Book Club: A Year in the Life of Collins Bay Prison

"Prison Book Club: A Year in the Collins Bay Prison Reading Group" (2016) by Walmsley, Ann, translated by Mukai Kazumi.

A reading group is held once a month at a Canadian prison. A journalist who volunteered there witnessed the changes in the prisoners. A reading group is held regularly at Collins Bay Correctional Facility in Canada, which houses serious offenders.
Through their interactions around books such as "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Grace" in prison, inmates discovered the joy of reading, opened up about their feelings of loss, anger, and guilt, and began to listen to those with different opinions, transcending racial and religious barriers.

A journalist who volunteered to help run the facility for a year saw the changes in the prisoners.
It's a heartwarming piece of non-fiction.

1. Cemetery Walking
2. A Promise Kept (Mortenson, "Three Cups of Tea")
3. Are you normal? (Brown, The Boy in the Moon; Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time)
4. Discriminatory words beginning with N (Hill, "The Story of Black People")
5. The beautiful sunrise is a warning to the prison guards (Mistry, "Such a Long Journey")
6 Books I read in the summer
7. The Book Club as a Disguise (Shaffer et al., The Guernsey Book Club)
8 Graham and Frank Reading Club (Galloway's "The Cellist")
9. I've become accustomed to this environment. (Janger, "War*")
10 Abuse or Neglect? (Walls, "Children of the Glass Castle")
11. Live Today (Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath)
12. Christmas in Prison (O. Henry's "The Gift of the Magi" and "The Policeman and the Hymn", Eliot's "The Magi's Journey")
13. Three-person book club (Larson's "The Third Reich's Lover" and Gladwell's "Genius! The Laws of Success")
14 Island Life (Levi, Small Island)
15 Another Captive (Hirsi Ali, No More)
16 The Wounded (Doyle's "Paula")
17 Suspects (Boyd, "The Common Storm*", Swaroop, "Six Suspects")
18. Good is more contagious than evil (Ackerman, The Zookeeper's Tale)
19. Reconstructing History (Atwood, "Also Known as Grace")
20. The Last Reading Group (Alias ​​Grace Again)
21 Members who have left the nest

*Works not translated into Japanese

I'm ashamed to say I've never participated in a book club, but when you start this kind of work, you can't help but be aware of book clubs. Everyone talks about one book. And it happens in a prison. What kind of chemical reaction occurs? The impact of this book, which brings various issues to light, is immeasurable (Ammel).