Waiting to Be Heard

✍ Scribed by Knox, Amanda

• Book ID: 108685602
• Publisher: Harper
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780062217202

✦ Synopsis

Amanda Knox, the young exchange student whose conviction and acquittal on murder charges in Italy made headlines worldwide, tells her own story for the very first time in an unflinching, deeply personal account.

She spent four years in a foreign prison for a crime she did not commit.

Separated from her family, she was demonized by the international press and treated harshly by the Italian justice system, including disdainful police.

She endured humiliation, injustice, and loneliness thousands of miles from her home.

Now, with intelligence, grace, and candor, Amanda Knox, the young American exchange student, tells the full story of her harrowing ordeal in Italy-a labyrinthine nightmare of crime and punishment, innocence and vindication-and of the unwavering support of family and friends who tirelessly worked to see her win her freedom.

In the fall of 2007, twenty-year old college coed Amanda Knox left Seattle to study abroad in Perugia, Italy for one year. But that November 1, her life was shattered when her roommate, British student Meredith Kercher, was murdered in their apartment. Five days later, Amanda was taken into custody and charged by the Italian police; her arrest and the subsequent investigation ignited an international media firestorm. Overnight, this ordinary young American student became the subject of intense scrutiny, forced to endure a barrage of innuendo and speculation. Two years later, after an extremely controversial trial, Amanda was convicted and imprisoned. But in 2011 an appeals court overturned her conviction and vacated the charges. Free at last, she immediately returned home to the U.S., where she has remained silent, until now.

For the first time since her trial, her four-year incarceration, and her appeal and acquittal, Amanda Knox shares the full and unflinching account of her terrifying ordeal, including the events that led to her arrest and her struggles with the Kafkaesque Italian judicial system. Aided by the journals and letters she wrote during her imprisonment, Amanda details her harrowing encounters with the Italian police, prison guards, and her fellow inmates. She speaks intimately about what it was like to be twenty years old and in prison in a foreign country for a crime she did not commit, and of the inner strength and strong family bonds that helped her endure her traumatic twist of fate.

Filled with never before-told details and eight pages of color photos, told with grace and maturity, Untitled is a remarkable story of innocence, resilience, and courage, and of one young woman's hard-fought battle to overcome injustice and win the freedom she deserved.

Now twenty-four, Amanda Knox lives in her hometown of Seattle and is studying creative writing.