Bookworm, no. 76

Miriam Lafontaine on Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen’s “Invisible Prisons.” Jasmine Morris on Tasneem Jamal’s “I Never Said That I Was Brave.” Poetry by Petra Chambers. Inside the January/February issue.

Dec 31, 2024

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Home Bound

Invisible Prisons: Jack Whalen’s Tireless Fight for Justice
Lisa Moore and Jack Whalen
Knopf Canada
304 pages, hardcover, ebook, and audiobook

In 1973, at thirteen years old, Jack Whalen found himself in the Whitbourne Training School for Boys, in Newfoundland and Labrador, after he knocked out and nearly killed a boy who wouldn’t give him a cigar…

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