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The uninnocent : notes on violence and mercy / Katharine Blake.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: FSG originalsPublisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021Edition: First editionDescription: 209 pages ; 19 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780374538521
  • 0374538522
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Contents:
How do we go on -- How would you write it -- How your heart pounds inside me.
Summary: "A harrowing, intellectual reckoning with crime, mercy, justice, and heartbreak through the lens of a murder"-- Provided by publisher.
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Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 306.8508 B636 Available 33111010751952
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"The Uninnocent is so elegantly crafted that the pleasure of reading it nearly overrides its devastating subject matter. Blake is an investigator of heartbreak, turning a critical eye on the ways our systems have failed us, and how we fail each other. Through that investigation Blake creates a story of radical empathy, a triumph of care and forgiveness." --Stephanie Danler, author of Stray and SweetbitterA harrowing intellectual reckoning with crime, mercy, justice and heartbreak through the lens of a murderOn 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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-206).

"A harrowing, intellectual reckoning with crime, mercy, justice, and heartbreak through the lens of a murder"-- Provided by publisher.

How do we go on -- How would you write it -- How your heart pounds inside me.

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