A Knock at Midnight: A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom

“A necessary guide for our time . . . Brittany Ok. Barnett is a star.”—Van Jones, CEO of REFORM Alliance, CNN Host, and New York Instances bestselling writer 

Brittany Ok. Barnett was solely a regulation pupil when she got here throughout the case that may change her life eternally—that of Sharanda Jones, single mom, enterprise proprietor, and, like Brittany, Black daughter of the agricultural South. A sufferer of America’s devastating struggle on medication, Sharanda had been torn away from her younger daughter and was serving a life sentence with out parole—for a first-time drug offense. In Sharanda, Brittany noticed haunting echoes of her personal life, as the daughter of a previously incarcerated mom. As she studied this case, a system got here into focus by which widespread racial injustice types the core of America’s dependancy to incarceration. Moved by Sharanda’s plight, Brittany set to work to realize her freedom.
 
This had by no means been the plan. Vivid and impressive, Brittany was a profitable accountant on her strategy to a high-powered future in company regulation. However Sharanda’s case opened the door to a harrowing journey by the legal justice system. By day she moved billion-dollar offers, and by night time she labored professional bono to free purchasers in close to hopeless authorized battles. Finally, her path reworked her understanding of injustice within the courts, of genius languishing behind bars, and the very definition of freedom itself.

Brittany’s riveting memoir is without delay a coming-of-age story and a strong evocation of what it takes to deliver hope and justice to a system constructed to withstand them each.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS