"Knopp's account of her twenty-three-year friendship with a death-row inmate is a powerful argument for the abolition of the death penalty and against the cruelties of the prison system. It is also a deep exploration of the demands of friendship in the context of Christian faith and a meditation on the call to forgive." --Sara Miles, author of Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion "The story about Lisa's unexpected friendship with Carey Dean opens our eyes to the realities of death row and tells a lot about who she is and her capacity to love. It also challenges us to consider what's possible and what is to be gained when you choose to look beyond judging someone by the worst act of their life. It is an important lesson for our time." --Donna Hylton, Founder, A Little Piece of Light "Knopp has achieved a style that is both artistically subtle and morally extraordinary. It's easy to make a case for or against capital punishment, but Knopp's quiet moral clarity and self-awareness allow her to do the much more difficult and necessary work of jettisoning abstraction and embracing humanity." --Maurice Chammah, author of Let the Lord Sort Them Out: The Rise and Fall of the Death Penalty "There are some books that transcend words on the page, becoming an ethical and spiritual force.

This is one of those books. A moving account of an unlikely friendship, a meticulously researched argument against state-sanctioned killing, a compassionate act of witness to the redemptive power of faith. It is all this and so much more: a story for our time that, as the scripture says, 'has been clothed with the imperishable' (1 Cor 15:54)." --John T. Price, author of All Is Leaf: Essays and Transformations.