Tag: poverty

Book Review: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

January 12, 2017

Official Synopsis from Amazon: A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice—from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time.   Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice … More Book Review: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

ARC Review: The Famished Road by Ben Okri

December 21, 2016

Official Synopsis from Amazon: In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri’s Famished Road has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children or Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, it combines brilliant narrative technique with a fresh vision to create an essential work of world literature. The narrator, Azaro, … More ARC Review: The Famished Road by Ben Okri