![]() ![]() ![]() It is my greatest hope that their lives will be the better for it, and I am forever grateful for the honor and the opportunity that Oprah has afforded me. Author, activist, founder of Together Rising, and host of the We Can Do Hard Things podcast Glennon Doyle is the author of the 1 New York Times bestseller Untamed, a Reese’s Book Club selection, which has sold over two million copies. Winfrey and her book club, my story will be introduced to a national audience. “My greatest hope at that time was that a few young people would read my story and learn from my mistakes. I wrote That Bird Has My Wings while in solitary confinement, isolated and alone,” he says. KEEP INDIE BOOKSTORES ALIVE AND GET COPIES OF UNTAMED AT THE SAME TIME. “I turned 60 this year, having entered San Quentin at the age 19. Keep Indie Bookstores Alive & Get Signed Copies of UNTAMED. ![]() Masters had this to say about the selection of his book for Oprah’s Book Club: HarperOne has reissued the book, which contains a foreword by spiritual teacher Pema Chödrön, who has long championed Masters’s cause. ![]() Oprah read the book shortly after it was first published by HarperOne, in 2009, and it left a strong impression: “His story, of a young boy victimized by addiction, poverty, violence, the foster care system, and later the justice system, profoundly touched me then, and still does today,” said Oprah. Masters has been incarcerated in California’s San Quentin State Prison for the past 41 years. ![]()
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