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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Shaka Senghor’s childhood veered unexpectedly when his parents’ divorce left him deeply emotionally scarred.
Chapter 3: Seeking his own path and independence, Shaka mixed with the wrong crowd, pulling him into a dangerous world of drugs and violence.
Chapter 4: Shaka quickly discovered the social validation that dealing brought, alongside the bleak daily realities of those trapped in addiction.
Chapter 5: Shaka kept traveling a dark path, and everything came to a head when he was convicted of murder.
Chapter 6: In prison, Shaka found no respite from the violence that still plagued his life on the streets.
Chapter 7: For years, Shaka resisted the system, but through reading and writing, his perspective on life was transformed entirely.
Description
Writing My Wrongs (2013) tells the story of a man growing up during Detroit’s 1980s crack epidemic. These blinks take you on a journey from his happy childhood to a life of drugs, gangs, murder and a 19-year prison sentence – and how he came to find hope and redemption through writing.
Who Should Listen
- Activists looking to learn more about life in American prisons
- Students of sociology seeking to complement their studies with a personal story
- Readers with family members in the prison system