Galleys Available National Print Campaign: Will send advance copies to NY Times, SF Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Mother Jones, The Nation, Washington Post, Wall St. Journal, Associated Press, Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, as well as trade publications Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, and Foreword Reviews Pitch features in Marshall Project, Truthout, The Nation, ColorLines National TV & Radio Campaign: MSNBC, PBS Newshour, Democracy Now!, C-SPAN BookTV, Tavis Smiley, David Sirota Progressive Talk, GRIT TV, NPR Flowers has extensive connections to Chicago and national media through her work as a journalist, including Al Jazeera America, Buzzfeed, Chicago Public Media, Chicago Reader, Chicago Tribune, Chicagoist, Huffington Post, WBEZ, Vice, etc. Online and Social Media Campaign: Haymarket Books has 13k FB fans, 8k Twitter followers. Alison Flowers has 1.5k Twitter followers Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements

Through intimate portraits of four exonerated prisoners, journalist Alison Flowers explores what happens to innocent people after the state flings open the jailhouse door and tosses them back, empty-handed, into the unknown. From the front lines of the wrongful conviction capital of the United States—Cook County, Illinois—investigative journalist Alison Flowers recounts profoundly human stories of reclaiming life, overcoming adversity, and searching for purpose after exoneration. As she tells each exoneree's powerful story, Flowers vividly shows that release from prison, though sometimes joyous and hopeful, is not a Hollywood ending—or an ending at all. Rather, an exoneree's first unshackled steps are the beginning of a new journey full of turmoil and uncertainty. Flowers also sheds new light on the collateral damage of wrongful convictions on families and communities, confronting deeper problems of mass incarceration and the criminal justice system.