Heartbreaks and Hallelujahs

Many glowing reviews flank the guts of this book. John Grisham describes Bryan Stevenson as a real-life Atticus Finch. Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times compares him to Mandela. Apt and true. However, I'm convinced that in the future, great people will be compared to Mr. Stevenson. His heroic and unfailing work for the unjustly convicted combined with his brilliance make for a formidable opponent in the legal arena. The sad part is that there's so much work to do, and the unfairness and blatant racism just grinds on. Yes, as the cover of the book promises, it's a story of "justice and redemption", but also of a broken system built on thinly veiled hatred and apathy, and the lives that are irreparably broken because of these sins. Read it and literally weep.