My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption (Unabridged) My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption (Unabridged)

My Time Will Come: A Memoir of Crime, Punishment, Hope, and Redemption (Unabridged‪)‬

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Publisher Description

“My story has been told many times and by highly regarded experts in their fields—judges, prosecutors, juvenile probation officers, sociologists, journalists. But I would like to try to tell it to you myself. I have reason to believe the experts may be wrong about me. You see, today, thirty years later, I am neither in prison nor dead.” —from My Time Will Come 

The United States is the only country in the world that sentences thirteen- and fourteen-year-old offenders, mostly youth of color, to life in prison without parole, regardless of the scientifically proven singularities of the developing adolescent brain—a heinous wrinkle in the scandal of mass incarceration. In 1991, Ian Manuel, then fourteen, was sentenced to life without parole for a non-homicide crime. In a botched mugging attempt with some older boys, he shot Debbie Baigrie, a young white mother of two, in the face. But as Bryan Stevenson has insisted, none of us should be judged only by the worst thing we have ever done.

Capturing the fullness of his humanity, here is Manuel’s powerful testimony of growing up homeless in Central Park Village in Tampa, Florida—a neighborhood riddled with poverty, gang violence, and drug abuse—and of his efforts to rise above his circumstances, only to find himself, partly through his own actions, imprisoned for two-thirds of his life, eighteen years of which were spent in solitary confinement. Here is the at once wrenching and inspiring story of how he endured the savagery of the United States prison system and of how his victim, an extraordinary woman, forgave him and bravely advocated for his freedom, which was achieved by a crusade on the part of the Equal Justice Initiative to address the barbarism of our judicial system and to bring about “just mercy.”

Full of unexpected twists and turns as it describes a struggle to attain the glory of redemption, My Time Will Come is a paean to the capacity of the human will to transcend adversity through determination and art; in Ian Manuel’s case, through his dedication to writing poetry.

Cover design by Linda Huang, based on an original image by Glenn Paul for the Equal Justice Initiative

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
NARRATOR
IM
Ian Manuel
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
05:40
hr min
RELEASED
2021
May 4
PUBLISHER
Random House Audio
SIZE
172.4
MB

Customer Reviews

Cyrena00514 ,

Thank you for writing from your perspective

This book is from someone who was essentially raised in solitary confinement. The amount of empathy I have for Mr. Manuel is substantial. I only wish I could have helped him in some way. I would love for him to come to my job and speak to the soldiers in my company.

Mertmimi ,

Pass

I couldn’t finish the book. I felt his sentence was to severe. I felt there must be a better way to treat young adults in prison. But it was difficult to hear him abide by no rules of society but become indignant when his rights were violated by prison guards . He practiced no rules of Christianity but refused to clean his cell on the sabbath. He constantly broke rules in prison but felt he was punished harshly when he knew the rules and consequences. He sounds entitled and obnoxious before during and after his crime.

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