{"id":13105,"date":"2024-06-26T17:37:30","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T10:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/product\/the-uninnocent-notes-on-violence-and-mercy\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T17:37:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T10:37:30","slug":"the-uninnocent-notes-on-violence-and-mercy","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/turn-books.com\/index.php\/product\/the-uninnocent-notes-on-violence-and-mercy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Uninnocent: Notes on Violence and Mercy"},"content":{"rendered":"

A harrowing intellectual reckoning with crime, mercy, justice and heartbreak through the lens of a murder<\/p>\n

On 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\u2019t know. It was a psychological break that tore through his brain, and into the hearts of those who loved both boys\u2014one brutally killed, the other sentenced to die at Angola, one of the country\u2019s most notorious prisons.<\/p>\n

In The Uninnocent, Blake, a law student at Stanford at the time of the crime, wrestles with the implications of her cousin\u2019s break, as well as the broken machinations of America\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Consumed with understanding her family\u2019s new reality, Blake became obsessed with heartbreak, seeing it everywhere: in her cousin\u2019s 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\u2014through science, medicine, and literature\u2014and 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Condition – Good (4\/5)<\/strong><\/a><\/h6>\n

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