{"product_id":"9781039007123","title":"Invisible Prisons","description":"\u003cb\u003eRiveting nonfiction from multi-award-winning author Lisa Moore, based on the shocking true story of a teenaged boy who endured abuse and solitary confinement at a reform school in Newfoundland, but survived through grit and redemptive love.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInvisible Prisons\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary, empathetic collaboration between the magnificent writer Lisa Moore, best-known for her award-winning fiction, and a man named Jack Whalen, who as a child was held for four years at a reform school for boys in St John’s, where he   suffered jaw-dropping abuses and deprivations. Despite the odds stacked   against him, he found love on the other side, and managed to turn his life   around as a husband and father. His daughter, Brittany, vowed at a young age to become a   lawyer so that she could seek justice for him. Today, that is exactly what she is doing—and Jack's case is part of a lawsuit currently before the courts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe   story has parallels with \u003ci\u003eUnholy Orders\u003c\/i\u003e by Michael Harris about the Mount Cashel orphanage, and with the many horrific stories about   residential schools—all of which expose a paternalistic state causing   harm and a larger society looking away. Yet two powerful qualities set this story apart.   As much as it is about an abusive system preying on children, it is   also a tender tale of love between Jack and his wife Glennis, who saw the good man inside a damaged person and believed in him. And it is written in a novelistic way by the great Lisa Moore, who makes vividly real every   moment and character in these pages.","brand":"Lisa Moore (CA), Jack Whalen (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Knopf Canada |  Hardback  |  2024-09-24","offer_id":46019516563711,"sku":"9781039007123","price":35.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_0c940ec0-81a5-4852-9d44-e97dfd421598.jpg?v=1723181489","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781039007123","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}