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From Publishers Weekly Starred Review . This stunning stand-alone from bestseller Lippman ( Baltimore Blues ) examines the extraordinary power and fragility of memories. Writer Cassandra Fallows achieved critical and commercial success with an account of her Baltimore childhood growing up in the 1960s and a follow-up dealing with her adult marriages and affairs. The merely modest success of her debut novel leads her back to nonfiction and the possibility of a book about grade school classmate Calliope Jenkins. Accused of murdering her infant son, Jenkins spent seven years in prison steadfastly declining to answer any questions about the disappearance and presumed death of her son. Fallows (white) tries to reconnect with three former classmate friends (black) to compare memories of Jenkins and research her story. In the process, she discovers the gulf (partially racial) that separates her memories of events from theirs. Fallows's pursuit of Jenkins's story becomes a rich, complex journey from self-deception to self-discovery. 20-city author tour. (Mar.) From Bookmarks Magazine As in much of her fiction, Life Sentences was inspired by a real-life story -- that of a Baltimore wom

Who reads Life Sentences: A Novel?

Author

Lippman, Laura

Publisher

New York: William Morrow

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061777967

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Mystery, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.14 / 5 (3,586 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14