The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton ( A mini review)

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Usually I do not read memoirs and especially I do not read them if I don't know for whom is about, but The Sun Does Shine is a book that I liked very very much. Before reading this book I had no idea who Anthony Ray Hinton was or his story.
In this book he describes his story and the struggles that he went through in a way that made my cry. His words were so honest and powerful. I liked that despite his own fate, he continued to encourage his fellow inmates until the last moments. His friendship with Lester is incredible.
This book left me with hope and many emotions.
It is a very powerful and inspirational book.

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Description from Goodreds:

A powerful, revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent thirty years on death row for a crime he didn't commit.

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.

The publication date for The Sun Does Shine is 27 March 2018.

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