As The Prisoner ’s Wife recounts, however, Bandeie grew into a troubled teenager who flirted with the city ’s seedier side. Her parents, both administrators at the City University of New York, provided a loving home as well as a private-school education, ballet classes, and summers at camp for her and her sister. ” Expelled front Collegeīandeie grew up in New York City, and came of age in a sheltered, middle-class environment.
Booklist critic Danise Hoover asserted that Bandele ’s “highly polished and skillful writing makes one feel her pain and joy. Published in 1999, the book earned enthusiastic critical accolades, and its author was commended for writing with frankness and grace about her unusual love story.
Poet Asha Bandele wrote a wrenching chronicle of her marriage to a man incarcerated for murder in The Prisoner ’s Wife: A Memoir.
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