I Can Take it from Here: A Memoir of Trauma, Prison, and Self-Empowerment
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Riveting, honest, and raw, I Can Take It From Here recounts Lisa Forbes's harrowing journey into darkness — including a fourteen-year-long stint in a maximum-security prison — and her fierce resolve to understand the effects of the trauma she endured, to take personal responsibility for her actions, and to ensure that her history does not dictate her destiny.
The youngest of six children, Lisa grew up in a Chicago housing project where she endured sexual, religious, and emotional abuse as a little girl. A voracious reader, she graduated high school at 15 and went to work as a secretary in a downtown insurance office, became pregnant at 16 and, at 19, unexpectedly and uncharacteristically committed a violent act, stabbing and killing the father of her daughter.
Providing powerful insights into what we as a society need to learn and confront in the ongoing epidemic of mass re-incarceration, Lisa is a stunning example of an individual who through determination, knowledge, and hard work has been able to reclaim her own life.
The book ends with Lisa's rousing call to action to support the people—as well as the shorthanded employers—who need the help, and need each other, more than ever.
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Lisa Forbes. (2022). I Can Take it from Here: A Memoir of Trauma, Prison, and Self-Empowerment. Steerforth Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Lisa Forbes. 2022. I Can Take It From Here: A Memoir of Trauma, Prison, and Self-Empowerment. Steerforth Press.
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- An emotional, page-turning account of unhealed trauma and personal transformation that will break your heart and change your mind, in the tradition of Somebody's Daughter, A Piece of Cake, and Jesmyn Ward's Men We Reaped
Riveting, honest, and raw, I Can Take It From Here recounts Lisa Forbes's harrowing journey into darkness — including a fourteen-year-long stint in a maximum-security prison — and her fierce resolve to understand the effects of the trauma she endured, to take personal responsibility for her actions, and to ensure that her history does not dictate her destiny.
The youngest of six children, Lisa grew up in a Chicago housing project where she endured sexual, religious, and emotional abuse as a little girl. A voracious reader, she graduated high school at 15 and went to work as a secretary in a downtown insurance office, became pregnant at 16 and, at 19, unexpectedly and uncharacteristically committed a violent act, stabbing and killing the father of her daughter.
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May 1, 2022
Growing up, Lisa Forbes felt like an outsider in her own family. Her mother and siblings singled her out for verbal abuse and punishment, her father was an alcoholic, and her older brother molested her for years with no repercussions. Raised in the Jehovah's Witness faith, she was continually told that she would not be one of the saved. Her escape was a man named James. Soon after they had a child together, he turned out to be as cruel as her family. When Forbes discovered that James married a woman she thought was his cousin, she stabbed him; he died the next day. After a sham of a trial, Forbes was sentenced to 25 years. She had always excelled as a student, even skipped two grades--so she read everything she could and took every class possible. But even as a model prisoner, she found it near impossible to succeed on the outside. Working piecemeal through her lifetime of trauma, she dedicated herself to helping fellow ""restored citizens."" Forbes' clear, honest, and inspiring memoir proves she is a champion for herself and the struggle against mass incarceration and recidivism.COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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Starred review from May 1, 2022
Forbes's memoir reads like a mash-up of episodes of Orange Is the New Black, a Toni Morrison novel, a self-improvement book, and a polemic--in the best possible way. None of this should come as a surprise, since Forbes found literature, including Morrison and Shakespeare while incarcerated for stabbing her daughter's father. The book unfolds in ways that clearly identify the ways in which childhood sexual trauma and its enduring effects shaped Forbes' trajectory, yet she never positions herself as a victim at the individual level. Instead, she uses her experiences to illustrate the societal issues that lead to recidivism and create barriers for individuals released from prison. As she notes, of the roughly 650,000 people released from prison each year, almost 2/3 are re-incarcerated. She examines structurally what causes this and provides clear, actionable steps that could reform the policies that make it nearly impossible for people to reenter the workforce and find meaningful, safe ways to live in our society after being released from prison. VERDICT Forbes has a story that needs to be read, and one that she has clearly synthesized and analyzed to ensure its significance encompasses both her personal successes and a much larger societal reform.--Emily Bowles
Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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The youngest of six children, Lisa grew up in a Chicago housing project where she endured sexual, religious, and emotional abuse as a little girl. A voracious reader, she graduated high school at 15 and went to work as a secretary in a downtown insurance office, became pregnant at 16 and, at 19, unexpectedly and uncharacteristically committed a violent act,... - sortTitle
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