Famed Crusading Human Rights Lawyer Charles A. Bonner Pens a Novel Approach to Child Sex Trafficking: The Bracelet The lines between fiction and nonfiction are blurring and giving rise to a new form that might best be called “true fiction, ”
So it is with San Francisco based Charles A. Bonner’s ground-breaking new novel The Bracelet that is presented as fiction but is based on literally thousands of cases, some he litigated as a Civil Rights Trial Attorney, many dealing with child prostitution and child safety issues. Do we read nonfiction in order to receive information, or do we read it to experience art? Bonner does several things at once. Taking his cue from Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, Bonner dons a memoirist’s hat as he interweaves his own experiences as a lawyer fighting to expose serial sexual predators. And as a facile prose stylist, he vividly convey the sights, sounds, and smells that their victims encountered living in the ghastly chamber of horrors, the windowless, underground room, the dirty foam bed, the grate with a metal chain, the bucket for a toilet. The daily beatings, rape, humiliation of the young women who tell the same horror story of being dragged off the street into a dungeon losing all contact with the outside world With Bonner’s deft, artful writing, we meet multi-millionaire Karl Burmel ( John Jamelske in reality) a collector of women - a serial rapist who scooped up runaway girls and other vulnerable women off the street and stashed them, one by one, in his windowless, concrete cocoon until he finally released them, blindfolded or in the dead of night, after months or years of captivity. This is true fiction, freed from rigid constraints, the boredom of statistics. What remains is an unforgettable tale that demands attention.Tune in tonight to Radio Free Kansas for an exclusive live call-in conversation with our guest Charles Bonner, Esq., beginning at 10pm (CDT)
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