Ride or Fly
Coming soon.
"You all are terrible dreamers." Nicole Daedone says it to the women in her unit at MDC Brooklyn, eight months into federal detention. It is the first line of a writing class — and the first line of a book.
The dorm runs on one law: ride or die. You take the charge, keep your mouth shut, and go to the bottom for the ones who are yours. It is the most beautiful thing about these women — and, more often than not, what brought them here. So she hands them the other half of it: ride or fly. The kind of love that doesn't just sit with you in the hole — it calls you up out of it. Not what was done to you, but what you will do with the life that is already yours.
Written from the inside, Ride or Fly is a love letter to the women the world threw away — and proof that the power was in the room the whole time.