Free
My Search for Meaning
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4.7 • 6 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Amanda Knox reflects on her world-famous confinement in an Italian prison and her return to an “ordinary” life—revealing hard-won truths about purpose and fulfillment.
Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn’t commit—and became a notorious tabloid story in the process. Though she was exonerated, it’s taken more than a decade for her to reclaim her identity and truly feel free.
Free recounts how Knox survived prison, the mistakes she made, the 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. It is the gripping saga of what happens when you become the definition of notorious, but have quietly returned to the matters of a normal life—seeking a life partner, finding a job, or even just going out in public.
In harrowing (and sometimes hilarious) detail, Amanda tells the story of her personal growth and hard-fought wisdom, recasting her public reckoning as a private reflection on the search for meaning and purpose that will speak to everyone persevering through hardship.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Knox follows up Waiting to Be Heard with a stirring account of the years after her ordeal with the Italian justice system. In 2007, Knox was falsely accused of the murder of Meredith Kercher, a British exchange student with whom she'd shared a cottage in Perugia. DNA evidence eventually identified a burglar as Kercher's rapist and killer, but not before police pressured Knox into implicating herself, leading to her arrest and incarceration. After she was exonerated in 2011 and released from prison, Knox "stumbled a lot trying to reintegrate in the world" before realizing that "being alone in pain was a choice I'd made, one that society had encouraged me in—but it had been my choice nonetheless." She writes of finding support and meaning by connecting with other publicly vilified women, including Monica Lewinsky, and marrying, becoming a mother, and pursuing a career in journalism and criminal justice reform. Along the way, Knox is frank about her self-doubts ("I continue to ask myself if I am getting anywhere"), offering a diaristic account of her triumphs and setbacks rather than prescriptive advice for life after trauma. The result is a moving testament to resiliency.
