Oprah's Book Club Summer 2018 Selection
The Instant New York Times Bestseller
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.
"An amazing and heartwarming story, it restores our faith in the
inherent goodness of humanity."
--Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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.
