Bookable Space with Jerome Gold

Joining host Yvonne Battle-Felton, this episode of Bookable Space features Jerome Gold reading from Paranoia & Heartbreak: Fifteen Years in a Juvenile Facility.

About the book

Adapted from the publisher’s description: For fifteen years, Jerome Gold worked as a rehabilitation counselor in a prison for juveniles in Washington State. Throughout his time there, he kept a journal of his experiences with youths who had been incarcerated for murder, kidnap, assault, sex offenses, auto theft, and selling drugs. What started as a journal became one man’s nuanced perspective on a unique group of young people. Writing from experience and with unflinching compassion, Gold brings the reader to begin to understand these kids, and through them, in some slanted way, our whole society. Paranoia & Heartbreak was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and was a finalist for The Montaigne Medal.

About the author

Jerome Gold holds a Ph.D. in anthropology. He did fieldwork in Montana and American Samoa. He did not pursue a career in academia, but instead worked as a rehabilitation counselor in a prison for children. He has published seventeen books, both fiction and nonfiction.

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