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It would be easy to skim the back cover of “This Life,” the vital, inventive new novel by Quntos (pronounced “QUAN-tuss”) KunQuest, glean the fact that the author has, for the past twenty-five years, been incarcerated at Angola prison, in Louisiana, for a carjacking committed when he was nineteen, and presume that the book belongs to the genre of prison literature predominantly concerned with exposing to the world outside the horrors of the one within. There is a significant nonfiction tradition of these books. Piri Thomas’s “Down These Mean Streets” and “Seven Long Times” dealt with how incarceration effaces the humanity of its subjects. Sanyika Shakur’s “Monster,” which recounted his years as a Los Angeles Crip and his multiple stints in prison, graphically described routine violence and sexual assaults in the system. And Piper Kerman’s memoir, “Orange Is the New Black,” illustrated the material and moral costs of the war on
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Kim Kardashian recently threw a lavish party for her youngest son Psalm in celebration of his second birthday on May 9.
And the 40-year-old KUWTK gave fans a peek at the toddler s birthday festivities in a series of snapshots uploaded to Instagram on Thursday.
Kardashian s estranged husband and baby daddy Kanye West was not featured in any of the jovial party photos.
Birthday boy: Kim Kardashian recently threw a lavish party for her youngest son Psalm in celebration of his second birthday on May 9
Party crew: And the 40-year-old KUWTK gave fans a peek at the toddler s birthday festivities in a series of snapshots uploaded to Instagram on Thursday