Sounds Like Trouble to Me: An Evening with Jean Trounstine

Author Jean Trounstine who hails from Cincinnati will discuss her 8th book and first novel, Sounds Like Trouble to Me.

Based on two true stories, Trounstine's novel sheds light on what happens when a corrections officer kills her abusive husband and suddenly finds herself on the other side of the law. Not only is she shocked with the systematic abuse against fellow female prisoners, but confronted with the complicated history of her own abuse. The officer-turned-prisoner must struggle with her fragile memory to uncover what actually happened before she goes to trial. The incarcerated women she meets change her, and in the end, she spurs on a MeToo movement behind bars.

6 pm reception/6:30 pm program
Free & open to the public. Registration required.

Copies of Sounds Like Trouble to Me will be available for sale & signing courtesy of Joseph-Beth Cincinnati.

About Jean Trounstine

Jean Trounstine is the author of eight books, a prison activist, and professor who directed the first Shakespeare play in prison world-wide and wrote about that work in Shakespeare Behind Bars, the Power of Drama in a Women's Prison. While directing eight plays with prisoners, she co-founded the women's branch of Changing Lives Through Literature for those on probation. In 2018, she received a Gramsci award in Italy for 30+ years of justice work with literature and theatre. Sounds Like Trouble to Me is her debut novel.