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A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison
Avery
August 2009
On Sale: August 6, 2009
256 pages
ISBN: 1583333487
EAN: 9781583333488
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
At the age of sixteen, R. Dwayne Betts- a good student from
a lower-middle-class family-carjacked a man with a friend.
He had never held a gun before, but within a matter of
minutes he had committed six felonies. In Virginia,
carjacking is a "certifiable" offense, meaning that Dwayne
would be treated as an adult under state law. A bright
young kid, weighing only 126 pounds- not enough to fill out
a medium T-shirt -he served his eight-year sentence as part
of the adult population in some of the worst prisons in the
state. A Question of Freedom is a coming-of-age story, with the
unique twist that it takes place in prison. Utterly alone-
and with the growing realization that he really is not
going home any time soon-Dwayne confronts profound
questions about violence, freedom, crime, race, and the
justice system. Above all, A Question of Freedom is about a
quest for identity-one that guarantees Dwayne's survival in
a hostile environment and that incorporates an
understanding of how his own past led to the moment of his
crime.
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