Burton will be in conversation with Chicago criminal defense attorney Leonard Goodman. Burton-part memoir, part political awakening, and part criminal justice reform manifesto-which Bryan Stevenson has called a “must-read.' At tonight's event, Ms. Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, likens her to Harriet Tubman, for their common accomplishment of providing 'a literal gateway to freedom for hundreds whose lives were changed forever' by their efforts. We’re thrilled to welcome Susan Burton to talk about her new book Becoming Mrs.

Then she founded a program called A New Way of Life that operates five safe houses in L.A., where more than 800 women have broken the cycle of incarceration.

For 15 years after that, she cycled in and out of prison, and though she was never once offered therapy or treatment for her addiction, she did eventually find her way into a private drug rehab program. © 2019 The New Press (E-bog): 9781620974391After Susan Burton’s 5-year-old son was killed by a van driving down their street, she became addicted first to cocaine, and then to crack. Growing concern about criminal justice reform: Thanks in part to the extraordinary success of The New Jim Crow, criminal justice reform and ending mass incarceration are central policy issues in every state and Susan Burton is a leading figure in these struggles.

The trade paperback edition will benefit from publicity around a special paperback edition being distributed free to incarcerated people in every state in 2018 (as featured in Publishers Weekly and Inside Bookselling).Ĭontinued promotion, tied to the author's nation-wide activism: Susan Burton tirelessly promotes the book and connects it to her ongoing advocacy work across the country, which involves talks at prisons, book talks, and high-profile speaking engagements as well as community- and school-wide reads. It won the Goddard Riverside Social Justice Book Prize and the NAACP Image Award. Significant media/awards for the hardcover edition: The hardcover edition received significant national print and broadcast attention, from Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times (who is likely to write again about the prison paperback edition), Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Library Journal, Booklist, Democracy Now!, the Daily Show, The Tavis Smiley Show, NPR's Fresh Air and Marketplace.

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