Book of the Week: The Crying Tree
THE CRYING TREE, Naseem Rakha. This accomplished literary debut deals with one of my hot-button issues: capital punishment. In 1985, 15-year-old Shep Stanley is killed during a home invasion. The 19-year-old boy convicted of the crime, Daniel Robbin, is sentenced to death. Justice grinds just as slowly in fiction as it does in real life and 19 years pass in the novel before Robbin is given an ...
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