Welcome to Litsy!

The cover gives you the general idea, but the book has so much more to offer. Michael Morton is convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the brutal murder of his beloved wife, Chris. He loses everything, and everyone. He‘s eventually freed by The Innocence Project‘s work ... 25 years later.

He writes about loving Chris, losing her and his son, earning his college degree and then Master‘s in lit in prison, and eventually gaining freedom (1/2)

Inside, I‘d been reading so much I felt like I was doing time with Mark Twain, sharing a cell with John Steinbeck, and sitting in the dayroom with Kurt Vonnegut and John Irving. Occasionally Tom Robbins would pop in. Stephen King was always lurking around a dark corner, motioning for me to join him someplace terrifying. They had all become my friends—men I could count on to keep me distracted at night and entertained in the lonely hours when I 🔽

[Prison] is a warehouse filled with broken souls we don‘t want to look at or live with—people whose addictions, abuses, ignorance, or rage we need to be protected from.

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#TBRtemptation post 2! Michael Morton left for work on a summer morning in 1986 after his 32nd birthday. His wife would be bludgeoned to death in their bed. He had a speedy trial and convicted of murder. He mourned his wife. He lost his son. 25 years later, after thousands of man-hours by his lawyers & NYC's Innocence Project, he was set free. Injustice was served and then repealed. This is Michael's story. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎