Showing posts with label Dear Dad: Growing Up with a Parent in Prison and How We Stayed Connected. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 9, 2025

REVIEW: Dear Dad: Growing Up with a Parent in Prison and How We Stayed Connected (nonfiction graphic novel) by Jay Jay Patton, with Kiara Valdez & Markia Jenai

Dear Dad: Growing Up with a Parent in Prison and How We Stayed Connected is a graphic novel memoir. I bought my copy new.

Review:

In this graphic memoir, Jay Jay Patton talks about what it was like growing up with a father in prison, how the two of them stayed connected during that time, and the work the two of them did on the Photo Patch Foundation, an app designed to help children more easily stay connected with an incarcerated parent.

Patton's father was incarcerated from when she was age 3 to about age 10. She was only able to see him a couple times during that period, and calls to her dad's prison were expensive. They wrote each other as often as they could and Patton's father, who learned coding while in prison, would send her math puzzles to solve.