Ghost of the Innocent Man

Benjamin Rachlin 2017

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
wrongful conviction race patience North Carolina

Our Take

Rachlin follows Willie Grimes through twenty-four years of wrongful imprisonment in North Carolina and the lawyer who fought to free him. The prose is patient and precise — it matches the pace of incarceration itself, the decades of waiting for a system to correct an error it has no incentive to acknowledge.

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