This book discussion will be online via Zoom and at room 630 in WPU (Two separate discussions at the same time with different hosts.)

If you come in-person, please feel free to bring your own lunch. Register here to receive a free copy of the book and a calendar reminder.

The title of this book, Six Dimes and a Nickel, is slang for the author's prison sentence: sixty-five years. But he re-defined himself in prison, having learned from his first friend there that when you are in hot water you change. Some things, like eggs, become hard in hot water. Other things fall apart or get ruined in hot water, silk fabric for example. A coffee bean in hot water becomes something better than it was. West changed his attitude, his way of dealing with people, and other facets of himself and got paroled after just a few years. He relates this coffee bean conversation early in this very engaging book to assure readers that if he could improve himself and the course of his life, anyone can. 

As the publisher says, "If you want to not only make a change in your life, but discover how to maintain that change and become the best version of yourself, then you’ve come to the right place. The principles and stories in this book are the blueprint for how Damon rewrote his story and, if applied, how you can rewrite yours."