Interview with the award-winning writer Caroline Leavitt on A MIGHTY BLAZE about MOTHERLOVE and more
Watch this wonderful trailer announcing MOTHERLOVE from the talented Mary Lasley. PUB DATE TODAY, March 21, 2024
ANNOUNCING MY NEWEST BOOK MOTHERLOVE, short stories published by the amazing Concord Free Press. The book will be released MARCH 21, 2024 and readings and events will follow. 
Here’s what the press says about MOTHERLOVE Coming on March 21:
“MOTHERLOVE is the powerful short-story collection from Jean Trounstine, an acclaimed writer and social-justice activist with a deep knowledge of the US prison system—and its devastating impact on our communities in Massachusetts and beyond. In MOTHERLOVE, she turns her sharp eye on an often-forgotten group—the mothers of children who kill.
With deft writing and deep empathy, Trounstine explores the stories of ten mothers, each struggling with the aftermath of murder. While fictional, Trounstine’s characters are drawn from her more than thirty years of experience with prisoners and their families, making her stories all the more real and resonant.” Preorder here.
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Here’s the info from IG’s website: “Nearly a quarter of a million youth are tried, sentenced, or imprisoned as adults every year across the United States. On any given day, ten thousand youth are detained or incarcerated in adult jails and prisons.
Putting a human face to these sobering statistics, Boy With A Knife tells the story of Karter Kane Reed, who, was sentenced to life in an adult prison for a murder he committed at the age of sixteen in 1993 in a high school classroom. Twenty years later, in 2013, he became one of the few men in Massachusetts to sue the Parole Board and win his freedom.
The emotional and devastating narrative takes us step by step through Karter’s crime, trial, punishment, and survival in prison, as well as his readjustment into regular society. In addition to being a powerful portrayal of one boy trying to come to terms with the consequences of his tragic actions,
KARTER REED on Radio Boston
First up, my latest book, Boy With A Knife: A Story of Murder, Remorse, and A Prisoner’s Fight for Justice, which has recently hit the stands, published by the wonderful press, IG Publishing:
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Nominated for a 2017:
MEDIA FOR A JUST SOCIETY AWARD
Boy With A Knife is also a searing critique of the practice of sentencing youth to adult prisons, providing a wake-up call on how we must change the laws in this country that allow children to be sentenced as adults.”
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Media about BWAK
Read Praise for BWAK from:
Nell Bernstein
Reginald Dwayne Betts
Judge Nancy Gertner
Piper Kerman
Dr. Robert Kinscherff
Caroline Leavitt
TJ Parsell
Luis Rodriguez
Shon Hopwood
Christopher Zoukis
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
Luis Rodriguez Blog,
Chris Faraone in Dig Boston
Christopher Zoukis in Huffington Post
David Swanson in Let’s Try Democracy
Eleanor Bader on Truthout
Alan Upic in Uptown People’s Law Center Blog
New York Journal of Books review
Changing Lives Through Literature is a major part of my life. On this web page, you can find much info about this program. Here is a video from my work in Italy, talking about this program which we pioneered in the U.S.