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Author Brown, Cyntoia, author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Atria Books, 2019.
©2019

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Location Call No. Status
 Merancas Library - Circulating Collection  HV9468.B77 A3 2019    Available
Edition First edition.
Description xvii, 301 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Introduction -- The 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 -- The 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.
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.
Subject Brown, Cyntoia.
Women prisoners -- United States -- Biography.
Female offenders -- Rehabilitation -- United States -- Biography.
Women criminals -- Biography.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Added Author Mauger, Bethany, author.
ISBN 9781982141103 (hardback)
1982141107 (hardback)
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