Paranoia & Heartbreak: Fifteen Years in a Juvenile Facility

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For 15 years, Jerome Gold worked as a rehabilitation counsellor in a juvenile detention facility in Washington state. Throughout his time there, he kept a journal of his experiences with youths who had been imprisoned for murder, kidnap, assault, rape, theft, burglary and drug offences. What started as a journal designed to relieve stress turned into the evocation of one man's nuanced perspective on a unique group of young people who have crossed over to the other side of their own humanity.

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I ask myself, as I always do, 'Would I read this if it wasn't a review book Why' Yes, because it's real. Yes, because this is the world and the time in which we live. Yes, because Jerome Gold survived living it and the telling of it, so people like me can see the miraculous, awful truth and, maybe, step up and question why it has to be. Seattle Times

I'd suggest that this nonfiction work by Seattle author Jerome Gold, subtitled 'Fifteen Years in a Juvenile Facility,' should be read by every adult living in the state of Washington. Something very bad is happening to too many of our children, and we need to know about it. Kitsap Sun

Paranoia & Heartbreakdigs deeperJerry Gold mines the gold of these kids' emotions, exposes the broken system, shares the kids' grief and pain and hurt and loves. He doesn't judge these wards of the state, he understands them, he takes their voiceless lives and makes them palpable. Jimmy Santiago Baca

A powerful and very tender-hearted book without a soupon of sentimentality. Unforgettable! Russell Banks

Author Bio

JEROME GOLD is the author of ten books, including Sergeant Dickinson, which was based on his experiences in the US Army Special Forces during the Vietnam War. He is also the publisher of Black Heron Press.