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From Paris to Prison
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 1 2026
Pages: 302
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Told in a first-person psychological voice, the novel follows Jay Parker, a former international sports coach whose life fractures after an allegation leads to imprisonment while awaiting trial. As Jay navigates remand prison, hospital wards under guard, and eventual home detention, his mind moves backward through memory - Parisian streets, championship seasons, friendships forged in sport, and the love and family he believed he had finally secured.
Structured through alternating timelines, the novel contrasts the monotony and tension of incarceration with vivid recollections of a life once lived freely. At its heart, From Paris to Prison is a meditation on fatherhood, identity, and resilience - and on what it means to maintain dignity inside a justice system that moves slowly, impersonally, and without resolution.
Comparable in tone and structure to The Shawshank Redemption and In the Name of the Father, this novel explores confinement not only as a physical state, but as a psychological one - where memory becomes both refuge and reckoning.
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