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Free Cyntoia : my search for redemption in the American prison system / Cyntoia Brown-Long with Bethany Mauger.

Brown, Cyntoia, (author.). Mauger, Bethany, (author.).

Summary:

"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."-- Amazon.

Record details

ISBN: 9781982141103
ISBN: 1982141107
Physical Description: xvii, 301 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Atria Books, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- View from the outside -- Tales of a displaced princess -- Longing for a happy ending -- Trying for normal -- Going for grown -- Damaged -- Powerless -- Self-defense -- Trapped in a cage -- Facing life -- Spared -- Fighting for my life -- Two paths -- Self-destruction -- Proving my worth -- Hands and feet of Christ -- "The chick in the box" -- Memphis -- Finding my way home -- Burned letters from Texas -- Last resort -- Going viral -- Asking for mercy -- Finding home -- Epilogue.