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Book Review of Notes from the Country Club

Notes from the Country Club
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Imprisoned in the Veritas Unit of the Fort Worth Federal Correctional Institution, Cynthia Mitchell is undergoing pyschiatric evaluation to determine whether she is competent to stand trail for the murder of her husband. From the inside out, se watch as Cynthia endures the humiliations of prison life and reveals through a series of deeply disturbing flashbacks the escalating brutality in her marriage.

Notes from the Country Club is a taut and harrowing novel that describes the high-wire act battered women walk every day, living in terror of their lovers and husbands.