NAACP Image Award nominee for Outstanding Biography/Autobiography

In her own words, Cyntoia Brown shares the riveting and redemptive story of how she changed her life for the better while in prison, finding hope through faith after a traumatic adolescence of drug addiction, rape, and sex trafficking led to a murder conviction.

Cyntoia Brown was sentenced to life in prison for a murder she committed at the age of sixteen. Her case became national news when celebrities and activists made the hashtag #FreeCyntoia go viral in 2017. She was granted full clemency after having served fifteen years, walking out a free woman on August 7, 2019.

This is her story, in her own words.

In these pages, written over the fifteen years she was incarcerated, Cyntoia shares the difficult early life that lead to that fateful night and how she found the strength to not only survive, but thrive, in prison.

A coming-of-age memoir set against the shocking backdrop of a life behind bars, Free Cyntoia takes you on a spiritual journey as Cyntoia struggles to overcome a legacy of family addiction and a lifetime of feeling ostracized and abandoned by society.

Product details

File Size: 29558 KB
Print Length: 319 pages
Publisher: Atria Books; Reprint edition (October 15, 2019)
Publication Date: October 15, 2019
Language: English
ASIN: B07THDLRFP
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

FREE CYNTOIA: MY SEARCH FOR REDEMPTION IN THE AMERICAN PRISON SYSTEM