In the Slammer with Carol Smith: A Novel

A finely observed and lovingly detailed portrait of a woman attempting to find a community and understand her own troubled history

After spending two decades in jails, psych wards, and halfway houses for her peripheral involvement in a radical students' bombing plot, thirty-six-year-old Carol Smith winds up squatting in a tattered space in Spanish Harlem. She spends the majority of her vagrant days socializing with her homeless neighbors, arguing with a testy social worker, and wandering th...