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    This Is Not My Life: A Memoir of Love, Prison, and Other Complications

    By Diane Schoemperlen

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    From the Governor General’s Award winning author of Forms of Devotion, Our Lady of the Lost and Found and By the Book

    “Never once in my life had I dreamed of being in bed with a convicted killer.”

    For almost six turbulent years, award-winning writer Diane Schoemperlen was involved with a prison inmate serving a life sentence for second-degree murder. The relationship surprised no one more than her. How do you fall in love with a man with a violent past? How do you date someone who is in prison? This Is Not My Life is the story of the romance between Diane and Shane—how they met and fell in love, how they navigated passes and parole and the obstacles facing a long-term prisoner attempting to return to society, and how, eventually, things fell apart. While no relationship takes place in a vacuum, this is never more true than when that relationship is with a federal inmate. In this candid, often wry, sometimes disturbing memoir, Schoemperlen takes us inside this complex and difficult relationship as she journeys through the prison system with Shane. Not only did this relationship enlarge her capacity for both empathy and compassion, but it also forced her to more deeply examine herself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateApr 23, 2016
    ISBN9781443434225
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    This Is Not My Life: A Memoir of Love, Prison, and Other Complications
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    Diane Schoemperlen

    Diane Schoemperlen is the Governor General’s Award winning author of twelve works of fiction and non-fiction, most recently By the Book: Stories and Pictures, a collection illustrated with her own full-colour collages, which was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. She is a recipient of the Marian Engel Award from the Writers’ Trust of Canada.

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    • 5/5
      very honest memoir of being in love with someone that worked better when you weren't together.