The film focuses on a series of hunger strikes organized by those incarcerated at California’s Pelican Bay State Prison, in protest of conditions in highest-security prisons. By Alissa Wilkinson ...

Lke her heroine Dinah, Barbara Trapido grew up, the daughter of European immigrants, in South Afiica; like her, she married a historian (in the novel Sam, in real life Stan), also a child of European ...