NAACP Image Award nominee for Outstanding Biography/Autobiography In her own words, Cyntoia Brown-long shares the riveting and redemptive story of how she changed her life for the better while in prison, finding hope through faith after a traumatic adolescence of drug addiction, rape, and sex trafficking led to a murder conviction.
A coming-of-age memoir set against the shocking backdrop of a life behind bars, Free Cyntoia takes you on a spiritual journey as Cyntoia struggles to overcome a lifetime of feeling ostracized and abandoned by society..
In these pages, Cyntoia shares the details of her transformation, including a profound encounter with God, an unlikely romance, an unprecedented outpouring of support from social media advocates and A-list celebrities, and her release from prison.
Then, a fateful meeting with a Prison educator turned mentor offers Cyntoia the opportunity to make the pivotal decision to strive for a better future, even if she\'s never freed.
Once in prison, she attempts to build a positive path and honor the values her beloved adoptive mother, Ellenette, taught her, but Cyntoia succumbs to harmful influences that drive her to a cycle of progress and setbacks.
Brown reflects on the isolation, low self-esteem, and sense of alienation that drove her straight into the hands of a predator.
Two years later, she was sentenced to life in prison.
At the age of sixteen, Cyntoia Brown, a survivor of human trafficking, was arrested for killing a man who had picked her up for sex.
The girl who desperately wanted to belong, who felt powerless, who clawed, and scratched her way out of every corner she was backed into, was gone.
They transformed me.
Those...years in Prison hadn\'t just turned me into woman.
NAACP Image Award nominee for Outstanding Biography/Autobiography In her own words, Cyntoia Brown-long shares the riveting and redemptive story of how she changed her life for the better while in prison, finding hope through faith after a traumatic adolescence of drug addiction, rape, and sex trafficking led to a murder conviction
