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Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus: Inside the World of a Woman Born in Prison
 
 
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Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus: Inside the World of a Woman Born in Prison [Kindle Edition]

Deborah Jiang Stein (Author)
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Publication Date: January 17, 2012
Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus: Inside the World of a Woman Born in Prison, is the story about a woman who’s gift for finding purpose in life drives her to help others change their lives even as she struggles to accept and overcome her own past, born heroin addicted to a mother in prison. Her story proves we’re more than the sum of our parts, and there’s always a chance for redemption.



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"Out of the depths of her pain and eventual acceptance, Deborah created not only this ruggedly honest book (which entranced me--I read it in one gulp), but also some creative and important projects...." --PsychCentral, Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus: Deborah Jiang Stein's Story

"...mesmerized by this book. It's beautiful and harrowing and brave...the agility and strength of the human spirit, but not in a precious way. It's evocative, fierce and tender.
The strength of Jiang Stein's writing is her ability to put me right there in her scenes. I held my breath..."
--Judy Clement Wall, Used Furniture Review

About the Author

Deborah Jiang Stein is a writer and public speaker who devotes her work to women, men, and children in the margins of society. She founded the nonprofit, The unPrison Project (www.theunprisonproject.org) to serve women in prisons. Deborah is at work on another memoir, a YA novel, and a collection of short stories. She's also compiling a collection of prison writing and interviews from women's prisons. www.deborahstein.com

Product Details

  • File Size: 255 KB
  • Print Length: 189 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1887345507
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
  • Publisher: Cell 7 Media (January 17, 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B006Z0L9H2
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #242,597 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Hooked. January 25, 2012
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
I just finished this book two nights ago, staying up much too late to do so, and I am still thinking about it. The author, born in prison, addicted to heroin, and taken from her birth mother at a year old, never knew who she was, growing up. Her adoptive parents were Jewish, scholarly, and unprepared for the wild, rebellious, risk-taking, brown-skinned, Asian-eyed stranger in their orderly life and home. Something was always missing from Deborah's very core, and that something was the truth of her nature and her soul. She was weaned off of heroin before she could say the word, but she got hooked again, on other drugs, at a very young age. Throughout her teens and twenties she got into trouble, she ran away, she acted out, she played fast and loose with her own welfare and her deepest yearnings, but she never let herself out of the prison of her own making--emotional lockdown, a refusal to be loved. And then she turned it around with astonishing courage. I have a new hero in Deborah Jiang Stein, for the risks she takes now are about telling the whole truth all the time--to herself, about herself, and in order to free herself and find the joy, love, and generosity in the powerful energy that has more than once put her very life at risk. She uses this energy for immense good and in doing so she has escaped all her prisons.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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With the same universal feminine curiosity that led Eve to take her fateful bite of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, so a young Deborah Jiang Stein broke a family taboo and opened a drawer to her own history and destiny. A tale of waywardness and lostness, of courage, flair, and redemption, this book prances right into our hearts and the lives of women and men yearning to break free of prisons both literal and symbolic. Ms. Jiang Stein's story is tragic and funny, distressing and inspiring, written with such spare and elegant craft that it takes the breath away in artistry alone. Five stars and then some!
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
One Hell of a Story January 20, 2012
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For the last 3 1/2 hours, I feel like I've been sitting at my dining room table with a sister-friend eating fried chicken and collards (or noodles w/butter) laughing and crying as she tells me one hell of a story.

My younger self wanted to play with Little Debbie because she and I could've wreaked some serious mischievous havoc on the neighborhood.

I loved and identified with pistol-packing Deborah's swag and fearlessness - even if she's shaking on the inside - because I see so much of my rebel self in her.

And if I ever cross paths with today's tough-girl-tutu-wearing Deborah in person, I'd want to give Little Debbie a hug because out of everything you've experienced, I still sense the little girl in you simply needs and wants those hugs you missed out on.
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An outstanding page-turner of a book!
An outstanding page-turner of a book written by a woman of extraordinary depth, courage, and spirit! Read more
Published 1 month ago by A. Freeman
Insightful
I enjoyed this book. While I personally could not relate to this book, I know plenty of people (my sister, daughter, and a dear friend, included)who can, and I believe that I have... Read more
Published 1 month ago by KendraRC
Stays With You Long After the Last Page
Deborah's debut memoir is a riveting, from-the-gut, slice of life page turner. I couldn't put it down. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Elizabeth Geitz
Enter the world of light, dark and all in between!
As much as I love the written word, this book almost defies words to describe this compelling and wonderous memoir. Life is indeed a curious thing. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Connie Mashburn
Raw emotions showing both vulnerabilty and fierce determination
This has to be one of the most honest and gripping memoirs that I have ever had the privilege to read! The story tugged at my heart, with the turn of every page. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Peggy Wild, LSW, Minnesota
Buy this book!!!
What a journey this memoir took me on. Deborah was brutally honest, more so than I could ever be, yet her story wasn't depressing or downbeat. Read more
Published 2 months ago by K. Albanese
A Must Read!
Deborah Jean Stein's "Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus" is a riveting memoir. I read it one giant gulp, unable to set it down. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Sarah Normandie
Encouraging words from a tough woman
A great, short reflection on a talented, multicultural life and a woman overcoming some pretty grim beginnings. Inspiring reading. Incredible food for thought. Read more
Published 2 months ago by D. Melo
Stein Does Not Disappoint
The tutu concept intrigued me; the prison birth pulled me in and kept me to a one-time sitting to learn more about the life of Deborah Jiang Stein. Read more
Published 3 months ago by E Kennedy
so long shame & secrets!
Deborah writes a beautiful and touching story about a subject that is dark and painful-prison. She give us an interesting perspective on adoption and the emotions of the adopted... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Elizabeth Beckert
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› Visit Amazon's Deborah Jiang Stein Page
Deborah Jiang Stein
Deborah Jiang Stein is a writer and public speaker who devotes her work to women, men, and children in the margins of society. She's the founder of The unPrison Project (www.theunprisonproject.org), a nonprofit which serves women in prisons.

She's at work on another memoir, a YA novel, and a collection of short stories.

Deborah's memoir, Even Tough Girls Wear Tutus: Inside the World of a Woman Born in Prison is the story of a woman whose gift for finding purpose in life drives her to help others change their lives even as she struggles to accept and overcome her own past, born heroin addicted to a mother in prison. Her story proves we're more than the sum of our parts, and there's always a chance for redemption.

www.deborahstein.com

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