With this achingly intimate work, asha bandele has won the admiration of such trailblazing luminaries as Nikki Giovanni, Angela Davis, and Junot Diaz. A lyrical masterpiece of unfiltered emotion and insight, "The Prisoner's Wife" is one of the most resonant and wholly beautiful memoirs to come along in years about how a talented college student falls in love with a man serving 25-to-life for murder.