The Sun Does Shine

Having read it

★★★★★

Human, fallible, difficult, shocking in its injustices and unfairness but ultimately redemptive, honest and with a dash of reality to help readers understand and see another perspective with a little humour to help propel the insightful narrative; one cannot begin to truly imagine the real day-to-day struggles of existing (and innocently and unjustly because of bigots and racists et al. despite factual evidence and truth) on Death Row but this author’s and his memoir’s focus and experiences make for a readable and involving journey of rage, anger, love, possibility and hope, despite the thirty years of waiting.

This quote, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, that opens the twenty-first chapter, says a lot in a few words:

The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.