Donaldson, Greg. Zebratown: The True Story of a Black Ex-Con and a White Single Mother in Small-Town America.(Brief article)(Book review)

Donaldson, Greg. Zebratown: The True Story of a Black Ex-Con and a White Single Mother in Small-Town America. Scribner. Aug. 2010. c.304p. ISBN 978-1-4391-5378-9. $24. SOC SCI

Donaldson (The Ville: Cops and Kids in Urban America) studies prisoner reentry through the harsh experiences of one ex-con, Kevin Davis, who sought out Donaldson after the image on the dust jacket of Donaldson's previous book--about a Housing Authority police officer and his work fighting crime in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn--led to Davis's arrest and conviction in connection with a brutal homicide. Davis served his sentence in upstate New York at the maximum-security Elmira Correctional …