The Sun Does Shine - Anthony Ray Hinton & Lara Love Hardin

The Sun Does Shine

By Anthony Ray Hinton & Lara Love Hardin

  • Release Date: 2018-03-27
  • Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Score: 4.5
4.5
From 1,230 Ratings

Description

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.

Reviews

  • Must Read!!

    5
    By Iphoneuser2188
    The Sun Does Shine is an amazing account of a failed criminal justice system quick to judge a man without proper means to properly defend himself. It shows us that in the end true justice prevails. This book shows us that perseverance, love and forgiveness outweighs negativity coming our way. Anthony Ray Hinton is an inspiration to us all. Must read novel.
  • Amazing story of forgiveness

    5
    By Skodonnell
    Anthony’s story helps keep my heart soft to people who hurt me - Thank you and yes the death penalty does need to come to an end!
  • Amazing

    5
    By Kseniia🦖
    This is quite a captivating read about life on death row, keeping faith, finding hope and good even in the darkest of places. I couldn’t put it down! I read it after reading Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson, and seemed as a perfect order to read these books.
  • Truly amazing

    5
    By xicedeno
    I have nothing but great thoughts when it comes to this piece. I had very emotion while reading.. happiness, sadness, confused, disappointment, relief. I am so thankful to have read an amazing book.
  • I could not stop crying.

    5
    By Mindyleeify
    This book is a must read for anyone who doesn’t understand the way the judicial system treats people of color in our country. Mr. Hinton spent 30 years on death row for crimes he never committed. And even though he was not put to death, those 30 years stole something equally valuable - The life he could’ve had. His lineage children he might’ve had, his relationship with his mother. All because Alabama couldn’t admit that they did wrong by him. The fact that he came out of this horrible experience with so much hope and peace in his heart is incredible. He had true friends by his side. At the end of the book there is a very long list of names of death row inmates. Please don’t skip over those names. Look at them, and realize that any of them could have a story like Mr. Hinton‘s.
  • Life Changing

    5
    By Charlene Ramos
    Thank you Anthony for sharing this wonderful story. If God sent you his best lawyer, God definitely sent you to be his best writer and a source of hope and inspiration to others.
  • The Sun Does Shine

    5
    By ghpaschoal
    Inspiring book! It’s all about hope.
  • The Sun Does Shine

    5
    By Talladegarn
    This is the most incredible book I’ve ever read. The truth, the faith, and endurance of this man is more than soul searching. I thought I knew my own beliefs, but this book has forced me to see the insanity of the justice system and the taking of a human life in order to “prevent the taking of human life.” Life changing. Belief changing. Heart changing.
  • Excellent piece of literature

    5
    By pjack522
    This is an excellent piece of literature that further unveils the truth surrounding systemic racism and social injustice. Hinton does a profound job taking the reader on the journey of his 30-year experience on death row. He lures you in with vivid descriptions of his time in prison and fight for freedom. And as the story unfolds, you can’t help but pause to wonder how you, the reader, would handle spending a large portion of your life paying for the crimes of an unknown murderer.
  • Must read

    5
    By sunshine ray
    God bless you Ray

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