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An American Coming of Age in South Korea's Prisons
Viking
March 2007
On Sale: March 15, 2007
368 pages
ISBN: 067003827X
EAN: 9780670038275
Hardcover
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A gripping first-person account of one young American’s
life-changing years in a South Korean prison At age twenty-three Cullen Thomas was, like most
middle-class kids his age, looking for something meaningful
and exciting to do before settling into the 9-to-5 routine.
Possessed of a youthful, romantic view of the world, he set
off for adventure in Asia and a job teaching English in
Seoul, South Korea. But he got more than he ever bargained
for when an ill-advised stunt led to a drugsmuggling arrest
and a three-and-a-half-year prison sentence. Brother One
Cell is Cullen’s memoir of that time—the harrowing and
unusual story of a good kid forced to grow up in very
unusual circumstances. One of only a handful of foreign inmates, Cullen shared a
cell block with human-traffickers, jewel smugglers,
murderers, and thieves. Fortunately for him, the strict
Confucian social mores that dominated the prison made it
almost a safe place, different from the brutal, lawless
setting most would imagine. In the relative calm of this
environment Cullen would learn invaluable life lessons and
come out of the experience a wise and grounded adult. With
its gritty descriptions of life behind the concrete walls,
colorful depictions of his fellow inmates, and acute
insights about Korean society, Brother One Cell is part
gritty prison story, part cautionary tale, and part
insightful travelogue into the places most people never see.
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