One of Buzzfeed's 25 New And Upcoming Books You Won't Be Able To
Put Down and one of LitHub's Best New Nonfiction to Read This
November The Uninnocent is so elegantly crafted that the pleasure
of reading it nearly overrides its devastating subject matter . . .
a story of radical empathy, a triumph of care and forgiveness.
--Stephanie Danler, author of Stray and Sweetbitter A harrowing
intellectual reckoning with crime, mercy, justice and heartbreak
through the lens of a murder 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. As her cousin languished in a cell on death row, where he
was assigned for his own protection, Blake struggled to keep her
faith in the system she was training to join. Consumed with
understanding her family's new reality, Blake became obsessed with
heartbreak, seeing it everywhere: in her cousin's isolation, in the
loss at the center of the crime, in the students she taught at
various prisons, in the way our justice system breaks rather than
mends, in the history of her parents and their violent childhoods.
As she delves into a history of heartbreak--through science,
medicine, and literature--and chronicles the uneasy yet ultimately
tender bond she forms with her cousin, Blake asks probing questions
about justice, faith, inheritance, family, and, most of all, mercy.
Sensitive, singular, and powerful, effortlessly bridging memoir,
essay, and legalese, The Uninnocent is a reckoning with the
unimaginable, unforgettable, and seemly irredeemable. With
curiosity and vulnerability, Blake unravels a distressed tapestry,
finding solace in both its tearing and its mending.
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