Wrongful Convictions Book Club

Join the Great North Innocence Project for a conversation about FREE: My Search for Meaning by exoneree Amanda Knox.

FREE: My Search for Meaning is Amanda Knox’s memoir about her life after wrongful imprisonment in Italy. FREE recounts how Knox survived prison, the mistakes she made and misadventures she had reintegrating into society, and culminates in the untold story of her return to Italy and the extraordinary relationship she’s built with the man who sent her to prison.

*Note that FREE is Knox’s second memoir; her first is titled Waiting to Be Heard and details her wrongful conviction for the murder of her roommate while studying abroad in Italy. Waiting to Be Heard is not a prerequisite to reading FREE, but is a gripping read nonetheless.

Our community meeting will also include a presentation on GNIP’s emerging client services and support program by GNIP Director of Communications and Community Outreach Hayley Poxleitner.

At the Great North Innocence Project, education is a central tenet of our work.

This discussion invites supporters, advocates, and community members to come together to ask and answer, what are the systemic and human causes and consequences of wrongful convictions?

Read or Listen

• Available through the Hennepin County Library in hardcover, eAudiobook, and eBook.
• Click here for hardcover, paperbook, ebook, and audiobook. If you order through Bookshop.org, you can select an independent bookstore to receive the full profit from your purchase!

Alternative Ways to Learn

• Great North Innocence Project client stories
• Hard Knox with Amanda Knox is Amanda’s podcast where she argues with her guests, changes her mind, and brings the kind of hard-won perspective that you can only get from someone who’s a connoisseur of Italian prison food.
• Mouth of the Wolf, on Hulu and Disney+, is a feature documentary that follows Amanda Knox from 2019 to 2024, as she returns to Italy to find closure and confront the man who sent her to prison, face to face. Directed by Knox’s husband and featuring original music performed by Knox, the documentary provides a extraordinarily intimate portrait of Knox’s journey to rebuild her life and find peace.
• The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox is an 8-episode limited series that dramatizes Amanda Knox’s wrongful conviction and her journey back to Italy to reconcile with her prosecutor. Though many others have tried to tell Amanda’s story on film, this is the first that that Amanda is telling it herself. She is an executive producer of the series, alongside creator and show-runner KJ Steinberg, Monica Lewinsky, and Warren Littlefield, an executive producer of The Handmaid’s Tale.