Publisher's Synopsis
When an elderly white woman wrote to several prisoners whose names she had taken from a magazine, she envisaged little or no response, but a young black man wrote back to her from solitary confinement. Thus began an extraordinary relationship, which unfolded through their letters to each other, and which resulted in their marriage.;The correspondence, which is published in this book, is a testimony to the ability of love to transcend normal prejudices of age, colour and cultural background. Ruth Sanders is a writer and teacher who lives in California, and Martin Forrest is serving a life sentence in the maximum-security wing of a state penitentiary.
