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4.72 AVERAGE
4.72 AVERAGE
challenging
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hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
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Very good book. Must read!
I just finished this excellent, excellent book by Bryan Stevenson, the activist/lawyer behind the new lynching memorial in Alabama.
This book could be said to be about lynching-by-another-name. It’s about the brutality and inequality of the American legal system. It centers on Stevenson’s career providing free legal services to prisoners on death row and to children sentenced to life without possibility of parole.
This was a difficult book to read, but it’s also surprisingly hopeful. Every American should read it. Stevenson is a powerful voice for the true meaning of mercy.
This book could be said to be about lynching-by-another-name. It’s about the brutality and inequality of the American legal system. It centers on Stevenson’s career providing free legal services to prisoners on death row and to children sentenced to life without possibility of parole.
This was a difficult book to read, but it’s also surprisingly hopeful. Every American should read it. Stevenson is a powerful voice for the true meaning of mercy.
This book is crucial for our time with its relevance to the Black Lives Matter movement, but also for its unceasing sermon on mercy. This is beautifully informative text about wrongful and unjust convictions that really forces readers to question the institutions present in our society and how we can extend even greater mercy. Stevenson's writing is informative, captivating, and thought-provoking. This novel is very heavy emotionally and will drain readers because it opens our eyes to the intense wrongdoing that takes place within America's criminal justice system. I think that this is a vastly important and critical book for everyone to read (specifically Americans) because there are so many lessons for us to learn from these heartbreaking stories.
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Racism, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Abortion, Classism
Moderate: Child abuse, Confinement, Cursing, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Rape, Violence, Medical content, Dementia, Grief, Fire/Fire injury, Toxic friendship, Sexual harassment, Classism
I want to give this book more than five stars. I feel every person should read this book! I’m not normally a fan of nonfiction but this book was very eye opening to me. I can’t wait to discuss this book during book club.
The message in this book is worth more than what they charged me for it. This book gives an insight into the truth of our justice system, with a great organization of information told in an interesting way. The only problem I had was that some parts were kind of slow, but overall I would say getting through those parts are worth it. It teaches so many things that fiction just can’t, while being truthful and real. A lot of things surprised me about this book and the stories that were told. Each chapter was powerful and worth the read.
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What a profoundly impactful book. I couldn’t stop listening. Beautifully written, powerfully persuasive, and devastatingly clear about the misconduct of justice in America, as well as the prevalence of people of color to be indicted at a much higher rate. I am deeply inspired by Bryan Stevenson’s work and the work of EIJ. It’s disturbing to hear how easily people have been placed in prison or given the death penalty, especially when they clearly didn’t commit the crime they were sentenced for. Stevenson makes the overwhelmingly important point that many of those in prison also have the odds stacked against them — poverty, mental illness, abuse, lack of resources — and do not receive the adequate understanding and support they deserve. This will keep me thinking a lot about how I as an individual can continue to fight for justice and fight against the epidemic of mass incarceration.