Description: The best way for a self-proclaimed naïve, middle-class, law-abiding novice like Devoto to learn how to be a crook was to go to prison. While most of her teachers are now gone, in one way or another, Bookin' in the Big House is Pat's remembrance of them and of the place they lived.
Brief description: PAT CUNNINGHAM DEVOTO is a one-time high school history teacher and a member of the USTA Southern Tennis Hall of Fame. Pat is the author of five novels, including My Last Days as Roy Rogers, Out of the Night That Covers Me, and The Summer We Got Saved. She lives and writes in both the Atlanta Metro and Alabama.
Review Quotes: "[Devoto's} persistence, and her insistence on viewing club members as more than the worst thing they'd ever done, offers inspiration as well as a quiet critique of the U.S. carceral system. Readers will be moved."-- "Publishers Weekly"