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The New York Times bestseller and Oprah’s Book Club 2018 Selection.
Winner of the 2019 Moore Prize
Finalist, Dayton Peace Prize, 2019
“An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the inherent goodness of humanity.”
– Archbishop Desmond Tutu
A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, and justice.
In 1985, Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested and charged with two counts of capital murder in Alabama. Stunned, confused, and only twenty-nine years old, Hinton knew that it was a case of mistaken identity and believed that the truth would prove his innocence and ultimately set him free.
But with no money and a different system of justice for a poor black man in the South, Hinton was sentenced to death by electrocution. He spent his first three years on Death Row at Holman State Prison in agonizing silence―full of despair and anger toward all those who had sent an innocent man to his death. But as Hinton realized and accepted his fate, he resolved not only to survive, but find a way to live on Death Row. For the next twenty-seven years he was a beacon―transforming not only his own spirit, but those of his fellow inmates, fifty-four of whom were executed mere feet from his cell. With the help of civil rights attorney and bestselling author of Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson, Hinton won his release in 2015.
With a foreword by Stevenson, The Sun Does Shine is an extraordinary testament to the power of hope sustained through the darkest times. Destined to be a classic memoir of wrongful imprisonment and freedom won, Hinton’s memoir tells his dramatic thirty-year journey and shows how you can take away a man’s freedom, but you can’t take away his imagination, humor, or joy.
Publisher : St. Martin’s Griffin; Reprint edition (June 4, 2019)
Language : English
Paperback : 368 pages
ISBN-10 : 1250309476
ISBN-13 : 978-1250309471
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 8 x 0.9 x 5.4 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book an emotional, powerful read about the justice system. They also appreciate the healing power of forgiveness. Readers describe the author as amazing and the theme as inspiring, moving, and forgiving. They find the authenticity raw and captivating. Customers describe the book as well written, easy to follow, and moving.
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