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Even Prisoners Get Fresh Air
Paperback
Biographies GeneralGeneral ParentingGeneral Sociology
ISBN13: 9781919545509
Publisher: Jason Clinton
Published: Feb 21 2026
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Even Prisoners Get Fresh Air is a reflective memoir about distance, duty, and the quiet strain of living between borders during the COVID-19 pandemic.
As international travel froze and permissions replaced assumptions, Jason Clinton found himself navigating an existence split across continents. His family had relocated to the United Kingdom in search of stability and routine, while his professional responsibilities required him to remain abroad. Each departure carried uncertainty. Each return required approval. What had once been ordinary movement became conditional.
This is not a story about case numbers or politics. It is a record of what it feels like when control narrows and choices shrink; when leadership must coexist with vulnerability; when the practical arithmetic of work and family becomes emotionally complex.
Through airports, quarantine hotels, and long stretches of physical absence, Clinton reflects on fragility, resilience, and the subtle recalibration of priorities that occurs when proximity can no longer be assumed. The memoir traces not dramatic crisis, but the slower, quieter dislocation of suspended normality, and the small moments of clarity that emerge when routine dissolves.
Measured and candid, Even Prisoners Get Fresh Air is a meditation on presence, responsibility, and what remains when certainty disappears.
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