The Sun Does Shine

Anthony Ray Hinton 2018

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread
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Our Take

Hinton spent thirty years on Alabama's death row for murders he did not commit. His memoir is astonishing not for its anger but for its refusal to be diminished. He read, he laughed, he started a book club on death row. The system tried to kill him and he chose to live anyway.

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