{"product_id":"the-space-between-before-and-after-living-honestly-after-the-truth-arrives-9798245916415","title":"The Space Between Before and After: Living Honestly After the Truth Arrives","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Nichole Wilder\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Personal Memoirs\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat happens after the sentence is handed down-but life keeps going?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is not about the crime.\u003cbr\u003eIt is about what follows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen her husband enters the federal prison system, the author is forced into a world few people understand and even fewer are willing to talk about. A world where identity is stripped, language becomes dangerous, and families are expected to disappear quietly. What begins as survival slowly becomes something else: discernment, advocacy, and the discipline of choosing truth without spectacle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten from the perspective of a wife, mother, and woman navigating betrayal, accountability, and love under surveillance, this memoir explores what it means to stay human inside systems designed to flatten complexity. It examines power, silence, stigma, and the invisible labor carried by families affected by incarceration-especially when the charges make people uncomfortable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a defense of harm.\u003cbr\u003eIt is not an argument for leniency.\u003cbr\u003eIt is not a plea for sympathy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a careful, trauma-informed account of what accountability looks like when it is lived daily, not performed. Of how love can coexist with boundaries. Of how advocacy often begins quietly, with documentation, discernment, and refusal to disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is for: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003epartners and families of incarcerated individuals\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ewomen navigating betrayal without losing themselves\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003ereaders interested in criminal justice, trauma, and resilience\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cp\u003eanyone seeking language for complexity where society demands simplicity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is written for those who want clarity, not condemnation.\u003cbr\u003eFor readers willing to sit with discomfort without turning away.\u003cbr\u003eFor people who understand that healing is rarely loud-but always intentional.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a story about staying.\u003cbr\u003eNot blindly.\u003cbr\u003eNot silently.\u003cbr\u003eBut with eyes open, boundaries intact, and humanity preserved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47775313756311,"sku":"9798245916415","price":1456.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798245916415.webp?v=1777989597","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-space-between-before-and-after-living-honestly-after-the-truth-arrives-9798245916415","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}