Rikers av Graham Rayman, Reuven Blau

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<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>EDITORS’ CHOICE • A shocking, groundbreaking oral history of the infamous Rikers jail complex and an unflinching portrait of injustice and resilience told by the people whose lives have been forever altered by it</b><br> <br><b>“This mesmerizing and gut-wrenching book shows the brutal realities that tens of thousands of people have been forced to navigate, and survive, in America’s most notorious jail.</b>”<b>—Piper Kerman, <i>New York Times </i>bestselling author of <i>Orange is the New Black</i></b><br><br>What happens when you pack almost a dozen jails, bulging at the seams with society’s cast-offs, onto a spit of landfill purposefully hidden from public view? Prize-winning journalists Graham Rayman and Reuven Blau have spent two years interviewing more than 130 people comprising a broad cross section of lives touched by New York City''s Rikers Island prison complex—from incarcerated people and their relati