The Lost Chapters

In 2014, award-winning novelist Leslie Schwartz was sentenced to 90 days in county jail for a DUI and battery of an officer of the law. It was the most harrowing and holy experience of her life. Leslie served her time at the tail end of a 414-day relapse into alcohol addiction after more than a decade of sobriety. This memoir of redemption and reading is told through the list of books she read as she served her sentence.