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Sad story of an innocent man convicted and his time served.
 
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Suem330 | 2 weitere Rezensionen | Dec 28, 2023 |
Although this book reads like a novel I was amazed at the organizational skills Rachlin obviously has to have been able to put such an incredibly detailed time line together from so many different points of view---an absolutely fascinating story, and horrific all at the same time. Twenty-four years gone--stolen! And that's to say nothing of the efforts of SO many people to try and help along the way---but who kept getting stopped, over and over and over. It's a frightening story in many ways but mostly if you are a person of color in this country—still, day after day, year after year. You're in trouble for just being the skin color you are---a punishment from the outside from the moment you are born. How, how, how do we get rid of this horrible, horrible way people are treated? I was cheered up until the very last couple of sentences in the book---the danger just doesn't stop. Rachlin says that it took him four years to write this book---I'm amazed that it didn't take MUCH longer!!!! It's a wonderful, engrossing book--hard to put down---even though the sum total of it breaks my heart.… (mehr)
 
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nyiper | 2 weitere Rezensionen | Sep 2, 2017 |

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