| International Standard Book Number |
9780316565288 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0316565288 (hardcover)
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| Personal Name |
Young, Chris (Consultant), author.
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| Title Statement |
The wound is where the light enters : a memoir of resilience / Chris Young.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
xi, 320 pages ; 25 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"The inspiring memoir of a brilliant young man who, sentenced to life in prison, refused to surrender his future -- a story so powerful that it transformed even the judge who handed down the sentence. If our world were more just, Chris Young would have been crossing a stage at college graduation at the age of 22. Instead, he was marched into a maximum-security federal prison, facing life under mandatory drug sentencing laws. Like far too many young Black men from his neighborhood in Clarksville, Tennessee, this was where his story was supposed to end. But one day in the prison library, a book caught his eye: an encyclopedia. As he began to turn the pages, Chris felt himself transported. Knowledge became a portal. He began to confront the nihilism around him, the trauma of his past, and the cruelty of a system determined to confine him. From the library, his cell, and even solitary confinement, Chris built an education from scratch, studying philosophy, art, anthropology, history, physics, and politics. He learned to analyze the stock market and taught himself how to code without a computer. He trained his mind -- and refused to let prison dictate the limits of his imagination. At his sentencing hearing, Chris gave such a moving speech that the judge resigned from his lifetime appointment to the bench and fought to free him. Started in solitary confinement and finished beyond bars, The Wound Is Where the Light Enters is a powerful meditation on choice, consequence, and human potential, told through the story of a man who was never given a chance -- and who fought until, at last, he was."-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Young, Chris (Consultant) Imprisonment.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Sentences (Criminal procedure) United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Prisoners United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Ex-convicts United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Criminals Rehabilitation United States.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
African American men United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Mandatory sentences United States.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Informational works.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Memoirs.
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