Riot Days

From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in Siberian jail for standing up for what she believed in.

´One of the most brilliant and inspiring things I´ve read in years. Couldn´t put it down. This book is freedom´ Chris Kraus, author of I Love Dick

´A women´s prison memoir like no other! One tough cookie!´ @MargaretAtwood

´Once you begin reading, you are completely disarmed, unable to put it down until the last page´ Marina Abramovic

People who believe in freedom and democracy think it will exist forever.

That is a mistake. What happened in Russia - what happened to me - could happen anywhere.

When I was jailed for political protest, I learned that prison doesn´t just teach you to follow the rules. It teaches you to think that you can never break them.
It´s inevitable that the prison gates will open at some point. But this doesn´t mean that you leave the ´prisoner´ category and go straight into the category of ´the free´.
Freedom does not exist unless you fight for it every day.
This is the story about how I made a choice.