The Jailing of Cecilia Capture Alice Kessler-Harris "A Magic Trick for the

"A Magic Trick for the Recently Unemployed" serves as a three-step how-to guide for reclaiming a sense of self and purpose

Divided into three distinct sections

key quotes and thought-provoking suggestions for practice encourage readers to engage with the text

Drawing on a wide range of therapeutic techniques

The Jailing of Cecilia Capture Alice Kessler-Harris "A Magic Trick for theCecelia Capture Welles, an Indian law student and mother of two, is jailed on her thirtieth birthday for drunk driving. Held on an old welfare fraud charge, she reflects back on her life on the reservation in Idaho, her days as an unwed mother in San Francisco, her marriage to a white liberal, and her decision to return to college. This mixed inheritance of ambition and despair brings her to the brink of suicide.