The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Anthony Ray Hinton

The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row

Anthony Ray Hinton

272 pages first pub 2018 (view editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional inspiring sad medium-paced
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A reader drawn to memoirs that transform systemic injustices into a luminous testament to resilience will find this book speaks directly to them.

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Winner of the 2019 Christopher AwardOprah's Book Club Summer 2018 SelectionThe Instant New York Times BestsellerA 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 h...

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Moods

emotional: 84%

inspiring: 73%

sad: 66%

hopeful: 58%

reflective: 53%

informative: 51%

challenging: 46%

dark: 29%

tense: 16%

funny: 6%


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