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On a Thursday morning in June 2010 Katharine Blakes sixteenyearold cousin walked to a nearby bike path with a boxcutter and killed a young boy he didnt know It was a psychological break that tore through his brain and into the hearts of those who loved both boysone brutally killed the other sentenced to die at Angola
In The Uninnocent Blake wrestles with the implications of her cousins break as well as the broken machinations of Americas 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 familys new reality Blake became obsessed with heartbreak seeing it everywhere As she delves into a history of heartbreakthrough science medicine and literatureand 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
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