Picking Cotton
Subtitle: our memoir of injustice and redemption
By: Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton with Erin Torneo.
Contributors: Cotton, Ronald.; Torneo, Erin.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780312376536
Subjects: Thompson-Cannino, Jennifer; Cotton, Ronald; Rape victims -- North Carolina -- Burlington -- Biography; Rape -- North Carolina -- Burlington -- Case studies; Forgiveness -- Case studies
Genres: Biography.; Case studies.
Description: The story behind the unlikely friendship which developed between the accused rapist Ronald Cotton--who served eleven years in prison for a crime he didn't commit--and his accuser, Jennifer Thompson, raped at knifepoint by a man who broke into her apartment while she slept.