Sarah Shourd: 2 books
A Sliver of Light
Three Americans Imprisoned in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
Hikers held captive in Tehran tell their story in “a moving memoir by three individuals who found the strength to survive” (San Jose Mercury News).
During the summer of 2009, Shane Bauer, Joshua Fattal, and Sarah Shourd were hiking in the mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan when they unknowingly...
Hell Is a Very Small Place
Voices from Solitary Confinement
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
“An unforgettable look at the peculiar horrors and humiliations involved in solitary confinement” from the prisoners who have survived it (New York Review of Books).
On any given day, the United States holds more than eighty-thousand people in solitary confinement, a punishment that—beyond...