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Catching Lightning by Patty Prewitt

This second volume of letters follows Trying to Catch Lightning in a Jar: Letters from Prison, continuing a long-form correspondence written during the second part of the author’s 38 years of incarceration. Addressed to her children, family, friends, and to those in positions of authority who have the power to adjust her sentence, the letters move across audiences while remaining grounded in lived experience.Writing from within prison, the author documents the textures of daily life-its constraints, routines, and small ruptures-alongside reflections on memory, relationships, and the passage of time. The letters move between observation and reflection, offering an unfiltered account of what it means to live, think, and remain connected under conditions designed to isolate. The book also includes an album of photographs from the author’s personal collection, bringing another dimension to the record of her life.Taken together, they build on the work of the first volume, deepening a record that is at once personal and documentary. This is not a retrospective account, but writing composed in real time, shaped by circumstance and sustained by the act of reaching outward.Published by Some People Press, all profits from sales of autobiographies are split evenly between the Press and the author.