**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Webinar via email.**

Tewksbury author Jean Trounstine will discuss her new book, MOTHERLOVE.

About The Book: MOTHERLOVE is the powerful short-story collection from Jean Trounstine, an acclaimed writer and social-justice activist with a deep knowledge of the US prison system—and its devastating impact on our communities in Massachusetts and beyond. In MOTHERLOVE, she turns her sharp eye on an often-forgotten group—the mothers of children who kill. With deft writing and deep empathy, Trounstine explores the stories of ten mothers, each struggling with the aftermath of murder. While fictional, Trounstine’s characters are drawn from her more than thirty years of experience with prisoners and their families, making her stories all the more real and resonant.

About The Author: Jean Trounstine is an author, activist, and professor emerita at Middlesex Community College. Her most recent work of non-fiction is Boy With A Knife: A Story of Murder, Remorse, and a Prisoner’s Fight for Justice. It explores the true story of Karter Kane Reed and the injustice of sentencing juveniles to adult prisons. Trounstine worked at Framingham Women’s Prison for ten years where she directed eight plays with prisoners. Her highly-praised book about that work, Shakespeare Behind Bars: The Power of Drama in a Women’s Prison, has been featured on NPR, The Connection, Here and Now, and in numerous print publications here and abroad. In addition, she has spoken around the world on women in prison, co-founded the women’s branch of Changing Lives Through Literature, an award-winning alternative sentencing program featured in The New York Times and on The Today Show, and co-authored two books about the program. Trounstine also serves on the steering committee of the Coalition for Effective Public Safety in Massachusetts. 

Register directly on Zoom HERE. Presented in collaboration with the Memorial Hall Library in Andover.

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