Thompson-Cannino describes the invasive procedures following a rape, unsettling police procedures (the lineup), unfamiliar legal stages (such as a probable cause hearing) and the disturbing trial. The first two parts describe their dreadful experiences: for her, in the “aliva swabs, vaginal swabs, pubic hair combings” of the rape kit for him, being “sprayed like a dog getting defleaed” at the prison. Authors Thompson-Cannino and Cotton offer this riveting account of their separate, yet connected, lives through those years. DNA evidence at a new trial, eight years later, exonerated him of both charges. When he secured a new trial in 1987, he found himself charged with a second attack and sentenced to two life sentences plus 54 years. She identified her assailant in a lineup as Cotton he was sentenced to life plus 50 years. Stories everybody should hear and know.In July 1984, Thompson-Cannino, a white college student in Burlington, N.C., was raped by a black intruder. Who needs fiction when we have such rich and layered true life stories. I cried in sadness, anger, fear, and ultimately in heartfelt cheer.
But these people gutted it out and survived to go on and find true happiness and friendship together. This book explores very complex issues that arose from a true-life situation that can only be described as a no-win situation for its victims involved.
I listened to this book while training for a long-distance walking event and could literally forget about the 100 degree heat and sweltering humidity and walk for 2, 4, even 6 hours entranced in the story. Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting? She helps us to understand how a very "good" person could be the principal agent in assisting something "bad" to happen. Karen White makes her character - whom readers could so easily dismiss as an antagonist - a hero in her own right. He does a first-class job of presenting that his character is flawed but innocent and that he retains hos hope and dignity through and unjust system and process. Richard Allen's voice is mellifluous and entrancing. What does Richard Allen and Karen White bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book? The description of Ronald Cotton's decision to not use a shiv in prison on an intended enemy.
What was one of the most memorable moments of Picking Cotton? If you could sum up Picking Cotton in three words, what would they be? Story and reading are layered and complex
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