After the Murder My Affair With a Felon Mary Elizabeth Van Pelt 9780982730362 Books
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After seeing an inmate interviewed on a television program Mary began writing to inmates in state prisons. A few years later in a prison visiting room she met Mark. Mark was twenty-five and serving twenty-to-life for a liquor store robbery that went bad and ended in murder. Mary, a college student, became enamored by the long and beautiful letters he wrote. She didn’t know that this murder, the death of someone she never knew, would become a transforming power in her life more than thirty years later.
After the Murder My Affair With a Felon Mary Elizabeth Van Pelt 9780982730362 Books
She began with the missionary's purpose of offering kindness through letters to a condemned man. She fell in love with his writing which spoke of a heart and soul worthy of love. Over the 30+ years of their relationship he hurt her and she hurt him. Yet she always held hope for his future, "casting a light on the door" as she so beautifully put it.I too have loved bad boys and hoped that the candle of my love could open the door of redemption, only to be disappointed over and over again. I too have done my jail and prison visits and loved through letters. I don't know what compels us to love the aloof, unreachable, dangerous ones. Sometimes I berate myself for my "poor choices", but in the end I know that loving these men was a redemption for them and for me.
Mary's story reminds me that we did not love in vain. The important lesson learned along the way is that you must release the outcome and love them from a safer distance. This is an honest and beautifully written story.
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After the Murder My Affair With a Felon Mary Elizabeth Van Pelt 9780982730362 Books Reviews
You just want to shake the author.
Brutally honest, in places, unanswered questions in others.
She was played, badly, but oddly, so was he.
A frustrating book.
Mary's story of loving a felon opens a window on a world rarely seen or discussed. She does this with deep compassion for all involved -- a compassion that is infectious. She recounts her decades-long affair with an honesty that draws the reader into the intense emotions of her situation. The inclusion of excerpts from Mark's letters supports the picture of him as a person with depth and complexity. Her clear and beautiful writing leaves us wanting more at the end of the story. Overall, this is a powerfully compelling book.
Prison work of any stripe calls for scrupulous integrity and unusual courage. My own volunteer work in a women's prison taught me to steer a zigzag course through the straits of countless siren calls--calls for sympathy, legal help, medical help, psychic help, and the simple call for a friend willing to listen to a no-luck, no-win story. Similarly, Mary Van Pelt, author of After the Murder My Affair with a Felon, struggles to stay true to the compass of her own integrity as she steers an even more convoluted course through the dangerous eddies of co-dependency in her search for an honest and soulful relationship with a charming convicted felon.
--Kathy Park
Author of Soaring over the Wall A Volunteer's Collection of Prison Freedom Stories and Seeing Into Stone A Sculptor's Journey
This author tells her story of her enduring love for a man imprisoned and shunned by society, and of building a lifetime of hopes and dreams around him. Parts of the story were hard because some of the choices she made could only lead to heartache and deep disappointment. I was touched by her honesty and insight. Though I felt her pain, I also could recognize the importance of the love she shared with a soulmate expressed in his incredible letters to her. I found her story brave and uplifting, and I am glad I read it.
Mary presents us with her second book, one in which she writes how she sets her self up for failure and follows through. These choices, brilliantly presented, made her what she is today -- a fearless advocate for people who feel powerless. She shows throughout the book how her choices were there, to take her power back or give it up, and also shows how she survived the bad choices to become stronger. Each section is brilliantly written -- in the hands of a lesser writer, you might not even read past the first chapter, but Mary is clear and insightful throughout. Indeed, it is this poetry in her soul -- and the poetry she saw in the heart of the prisoner with whom she developed a relationship -- that carries us through the book. She concludes the book with slightly-redacted copies of the letters which got this relationship started and kept it going.
This is great reading material, for advocates of prisoners, mentally-challenged, or even your average romance reader. This is real stuff, not some fantasy being presented. Mary will keep you involved, as she was, throughout the story.
I am blessed to be one of Mary's friends in real life, or at least online with a few real-life meetings. For me, this usually deadens my response to a book written by someone I know, as I am often quite critical of how the writer I know has downpedaled this event or that, but Mary stands tall and opens it all up. I was captivated throughout, and you will likely be as well.
She began with the missionary's purpose of offering kindness through letters to a condemned man. She fell in love with his writing which spoke of a heart and soul worthy of love. Over the 30+ years of their relationship he hurt her and she hurt him. Yet she always held hope for his future, "casting a light on the door" as she so beautifully put it.
I too have loved bad boys and hoped that the candle of my love could open the door of redemption, only to be disappointed over and over again. I too have done my jail and prison visits and loved through letters. I don't know what compels us to love the aloof, unreachable, dangerous ones. Sometimes I berate myself for my "poor choices", but in the end I know that loving these men was a redemption for them and for me.
Mary's story reminds me that we did not love in vain. The important lesson learned along the way is that you must release the outcome and love them from a safer distance. This is an honest and beautifully written story.
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