Description
Angels with Dirty Faces is no romanticized tale of crime and punishment.
The three lives in this creative nonfiction account are united by the
presence of actual harm sometimes horrific violence. Imarisha, dealing with
the complexities of her own experience with sexual assault and
accountability, brings us behind prison walls to visit her adopted brother
Kakamia and his fellow inmate Jimmy "Mac" McElroy, a member of the brutal
Irish gang the Westies. Together they explore the questions: People can do
unimaginable things to one another and then what? What do we as a society
do? What might redemption look like? Imarisha doesn't flinch as she guides
us through the difficulties and contradictions, eschewing theory for a much
messier reality. The result is a nuanced and deeply personal analysis that
connects readers emotionally with the lives of people caught up within, and
often destroyed by, our criminal justice system.
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