Six Women in a Cell
A Story of Sisterhood and Survival After Police Assault
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Six Women in a Cell
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Narrated by:
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Laura Rose Civilikas
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By:
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Diana Tokaji
About this listen
1 Night. 6 Women. 1 Jail cell. In this lyrical masterpiece by 2020 Sonia Sanchez-Langston Hughes award- winner Diana Tokaji, we hear the intimate stories of strangers, locked together for one long night. Meet: Baby, Alexa, Richmond, The Social Worker, Mudd - a teen, a divorcee, a sex worker, a social worker, a pregnant mom - and our grey-haired narrator who was just assaulted by the police.
This book is about a harsh reality Americans should know: "Up the hall wall for pat down, handcuffed through the succession of locking doors, and now this: I am told to sit... my left handcuff is clicked with the spin of a key into a tight iron ring on the metal desk. I'm not going anywhere unless I haul the table too."
This book is about love: "The eyes of each woman remain in my mind like the nurse whose eyes I bored through to stay sane in my last child-birthing, whose name I never learned, whose actual face I never took in, only the eyes, not even their color, just the saving connection of them."
©2020 Diana Tokaji (P)2024 Laura Rose CivilikasCritic reviews
"Breathtaking. Raw, Brilliant. And beautifully crafted." - Deborah King, creator of regrowing our wings: Yoga for healing trauma
"Not just words on pages - this is a taste of what life is for many." - Debra Bennett, Executive Director, Change comes now
"I couldn't put it down." - Maria Washington, founder, mothers for justice united