Concrete Carnival

Concrete Carnival is a shocking but important book, arguably one of the most literate and insightful disclosures about incarceration to come along in a while. It’s a scorching personal narrative written in a conversational, dispassionate voice by a man serving twenty-five-to-life for a heroin- fueled double murder, but Darcleight’s not looking for absolution. He knows he’ll feel guilt and remorse forever. The best he can do now is trust to the promise of his name: dark-light. —NPR