Bend Over and Show Your Lobster

I.M. GreNãda is a writer who has drunk the poison -- and lived to tell the tales. Twenty years of watching the world through steel bars has given Canada's only life-sentenced columnist an unexpected -- and refreshing -- view of why the way you do the time is more important than why you did the crime. It's a view that thousands of online readers have come to love.

Bend Over and Show Your Lobster is a show-don't-tell tour of a place that no one wants to land in, everyone has an opinion about, and few have ever seen. A collection of GreNãda's first work at The Incarcerated Inkwell, as well as a year of weekly posts at The Province, these strange-but-true stories from the modern penitentiary put the run on the regurgitated ballyhoo of "woe is me" prisoners and "tough on crime" politicos, while also revealing the very human -- often hilarious -- side of doing time. Like a prison tattoo, this collection is a visit to the Big House that you will both love and hate -- but certainly never forget.