Wally Lamb, author of the beloved bestselling novels I'VE COME UNDONE and I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE moonlights as a creative-writing teacher at the York Maximum Security Prison for Women in Connecticut. I'LL FLY AWAY is the second collection of his students' works (after I COULDN'T KEEP IT TO MYSELF), and features finely crafted tales of hard luck childhoods, bizarre adventures in the underbelly of America, and maintaining hope despite the brutal realities of life.