Book trailer for the unforgettable true story of an unlikely friendship forged between a woman and the man she misidentified as her attacker and sent to prison for eleven years. In their new book, Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton recount the harrowing details of their tragedy, challenging our ideas about memory and judgment while demonstrating the profound nature of human grace and the healing power of forgiveness. PICKING COTTON: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption, will be published by St. Martin’s Press in March 2009.

Visit the book’s website: Picking Cotton

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1. Sam says:

   March 7th, 2009

   I heard Ms. Thompson-Cannino and Mr. Cotton on NPR’s “This I Believe” the other day, extremely moving - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101469307

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