Every week, Tracy Beaumont writes to Innocence X, asking the organization to help her father, an innocent Black man on death row. Tracy is running out of time - her dad has 275 days left. Then one night changes everything. The police arrive and accuse Tracy's older brother, Jamal, a promising track star, of killing a white girl. Determined to save her brother, Tracy investigates on her own. And as she discovers the racist history that haunts her small town, she wonders whether she's lighting the torch that will illuminate her family's innocence... or lighting the fuse that will upend her world. Kim Johnson's debut is an incendiary, crucial look at the American justie system, delivered as an uplifting read full of love conquering hate and injustice.
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