Cooler Outside: A Novel

Cooler Outside—a powerful look at life both inside prison and outside, in the prisons we create for ourselves—is, above all, a story of enduring friendship, forgiveness, and hope.

For James Coolidge—known to his friends as “Cooler”—life was about to change in a big way. After spending over three and a half decades on the inside of a maximum-security prison, he was preparing to take the next step in his journey . . . on the outside. But James Coolidge wasn’t an inmate, although he’d befriende...