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<p><b>From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in Siberian jail for standing up for what she believed in.</b> <p><b>'One of the most brilliant and inspiring things I've read in years. Couldn't put it down. This book is freedom' Chris Kraus, author of <i>I Love Dick</i> <p>'A women's prison memoir like no other! One tough cookie!' @MargaretAtwood <p>'Once you begin reading, you are completely disarmed, unable to put it down until the last page' Marina Abramovic<br></b><br>People who believe in freedom and democracy think it will exist forever. <p>That is a mistake. What happened in Russia - what happened to me - could happen anywhere. <p>When I was jailed for political protest, I learned that prison doesn't just teach you to follow the rules. It teaches you to think that you can never break them. <p>It's inevitable that the prison gates will open at some point. But this doesn't mean that you leave the 'prisoner' category and go straight into the category of 'the free'. <p>Freedom does not exist unless you fight for it every day. <p>This is the story about how I made a choice.</p>