A review by readingbowls
The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row by Lara Love Hardin, Anthony Ray Hinton

emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad medium-paced

4.75

I felt a real connect with the author. This attests to the excellent writing and human story of being trapped inside a system with no control that works for your demise. Maintaining his hope and imagination and humanity Ray makes this a compelling and fulfilling read  


Death row 

• book club on death row 
• Escapism
• Changed white man previously kkk 
• He doesn’t think it matters who is innocent bc they’re all in there together
• When one inmates dad dies they all give him food 
• Violence useless. Cooperation the only way 
• Free will ? 
• The defence lawyer and judge had been friends all along
• System was rigged 
• Prayed to forgive himself 
• It takes so long 
• He is the guards fave bc he is kind 
• He worked in service of others cooking and visiting other inmates 
• Relationship w guards is so tricky they’re friends who laugh but then they execute them 
• So men have been executed in the time he’s been there 
• Hope strength his mother and friend and attorney to get him thru 
• Threatened w execution every day 
• On his release Comfort cusses him anxiety prefers to sleep on bathroom floor 
• Makes alibis for every day he lives 
• Trusts only his friend lester and Bryan