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Love Lockdown

Dating, Sex, and Marriage in America's Prisons

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Love Lockdown

By: Elizabeth Greenwood
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“I started reading this book and couldn’t stop.... [Love Lockdown is] a clear-eyed, compassionate look at prison love stories, and I found every relationship riveting.” (Lisa Taddeo, number-one New York Times best-selling author of Three Women)

An evocative and gripping investigative look into romantic relationships between incarcerated people and their spouses on the outside from the author of the “mesmerizing” (Elle) Playing Dead.

What is it like to fall in love with someone in prison?

Over the course of five years, Elizabeth Greenwood followed the ups and downs of five couples who met during incarceration. In Love Lockdown, she pulls back the curtain on the lives of the husbands and wives supporting some of the 2.3 million people in prisons around the United States. In the vein of Modern Love, this book shines a light on how these relationships reflect the desire and delusion we all experience in our romantic pairings.

Love Lockdown infiltrates spaces many of us have only heard whispers of - from conjugal visits to prison weddings to relationships between the incarcerated themselves. A fascinating and unputdownable deep-dive from the “quirky, engaging, and surprisingly uplifting” (Eric Weiner, New York Times best-selling author) journalist Elizabeth Greenwood, Love Lockdown will change the way you look at the American prison system and perhaps relationships in general.

©2021 Elizabeth Greenwood. All rights reserved. (P)2021 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Help to feel normal

The stories are relatable and made me feel normal in my own way. It allowed me to know I’m not alone and in any relationship their are obstacles it is in the end the work we put forth positive energy and lots of communication.

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Interesting Couples

Love Lockdown was read for a bookclub read. It would not have been a topic I would have read. I found it interesting and unbelievable that Journey would put up with behaviors from Bennie.
I will just say that everyone needs someone to love and I guess a prison marriage is better than being alone. Not a path I would pursue.

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