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 when the state flings open the jailhouse door and tosses them back, empty-handed, into the unknown. These stories reveal serious gaps in the criminal justice system. Flowers depicts the collateral damage of wrongful convictions on families and communities, challenging the deeper problem of mass incarceration in the United States, vividly showing that release from prison is not always a happy ending, or indeed an ending at all.