Oprah's Book Club Announces Newest Selection THE SUN DOES SHINE: HOW I FOUND LIFE AND FREEDOM ON DEATH ROW By Anthony Ray Hinton
By: Macon Prickett Jun. 05, 2018
OWN: OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK and O, The Oprah Magazine announced today the newest Oprah's Book Club selection, The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on DEATH ROW by Anthony Ray Hinton with Lara Love Hardin, a revealing story of hope, love, justice, and the power of reading by a man who spent 30 years on DEATH ROW for a crime he didn't commit.
"There was a time I thought I'd never see the sun again," said author Ray Hinton. "I really believe my mother prepared me, and she always told me to keep the faith. I worked really hard and tried to make a book that would inspire people to do better, learn how to forgive one another and move on. What happened to me, I don't ever want to happen to anyone else. I'm just trying to be a little tiny light in God's world."
A special entitled, "Oprah's Book Club: Freedom After 30 years on Death Row," will air Sunday, June 10 at 11 a.m. PT/ET on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. It will feature a conversation between Oprah and Hinton about his book and life. The discussion will also be available via "Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations" podcast Monday, June 11 (Part 1) and Wednesday, June 13 (Part 2). O, the Oprah Magazine will run a feature on the new selection in the July issue and Oprah.com will offer video clips from the sit-down interview between Oprah and Hinton, as well as a reading guide and selected quotes from the book.
On Amazon, fans can watch exclusive excerpts from the interview, and the book is available for purchase on Amazon.com/oprahsbookclub, on Audible and wherever books are sold nationwide. To start reading a free sample of the Kindle book, customers can visit: amazon.com/kindle-sundoesshine.
About The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row, Foreword by Bryan Stevenson
In 1985, 29-year-old Anthony Ray Hinton was arrested in Alabama and charged with two counts of capital murder. Hinton knew he hadn't committed the crime, and was convinced the truth would prove his innocence and he would be acquitted. When he was convicted and sentenced to the electric chair, he almost lost hope. As his memoir chronicles, the justice system in the South was stacked against a poor black man.
Hinton spent his first three years on DEATH ROW at Holman State Prison in agonizing silence-despairing and angry at all those who had sent an innocent man to his death.
But as Hinton began to find his spirit again, he resolved to fight. For the next 27 years he was a beacon of hope, for himself, and for his fellow inmates, 54 of whom were executed during his time in prison. Finally, with the help of attorney and Just Mercy author Bryan Stevenson, Hinton won his release in 2015.
The Sun Does Shine, with a foreword by Stevenson, is a modern classic tale of wrongful imprisonment and freedom won whose ultimate message is this: You can take away a man's freedom, but not his imagination, humor, or even joy.
About Anthony Ray Hinton
Anthony Ray Hinton spent nearly thirty years on DEATH ROW for crimes he didn't commit. Released in April 2015, in association with Bryan Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative, Hinton now speaks widely on prison reform and the power of faith and forgiveness.
About Oprah's Book Club
In June 2012, Oprah Winfrey reintroduced her popular book club as an interactive, multi-platform reading club that harnesses the power of social media, bringing passionate readers together to discuss inspiring stories. After being selected as the club's inaugural book, Wild by Cheryl Strayed (Knopf) returned to the top of the New York Times Best Sellers list and spent six consecutive weeks at #1. Other selections include The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd (Viking), Ruby by Cynthia Bond (Hogarth), The Twelve Tribes of Hattie by Ayana Mathis (Knopf), UNDERGROUND Railroad, by Colson Whitehead, Love Warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton, Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue and An American Marriage by Tayari Jones.
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