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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice

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The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice

The New York Times bestseller and Oprah's Book Club 2018 Selection: 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 29 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 27 years he was a beacon --- transforming not only his own spirit, but those of his fellow inmates, 54 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 30-year journey and shows how you can take away a man’s freedom, but you can’t take away his imagination, humor or joy.

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice
by Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Hardin

  • Publication Date: June 4, 2019
  • Genres: Memoir, Nonfiction
  • Paperback: 368 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
  • ISBN-10: 1250309476
  • ISBN-13: 9781250309471