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Readers
58/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Katharine Blake
Publisher:
FSG Originals
Date:
November 2, 2021
On a Thursday morning in June 2010, Katharine Blake's sixteen-year-old cousin walked to a nearby bike path with a boxcutter, and killed a young boy he didn't know. It was a psychological break that tore through his brain, and into the hearts of those who loved both boys--one brutally killed, the other sentenced to die at Angola, one of the country's most notorious prisons. In The Uninnocent, Blake, a law student at Stanford at the time of the crime, wrestles with the implications of her cousin's break, as well as the broken machinations of America's justice system.
What The Reviewers Say
This introspective book covers some disturbing and unsettling ground, yet appropriately so because of the subject matter. Readers looking to explore the ideas of mercy and forgiveness will be given plenty to think about.
Intimate and deeply moving.
The best part of Blake’s book explores the trajectory of the crime, subsequent trial, and imprisonment of her cousin.
