Sunny Hostin’s expressive narration of her absorbing and thought-provoking memoir offers entertainment and education whether you’re already a fan or have never heard of her. For the uninitiated, Hostin is a journalist, lawyer, and former prosecutor who now cohosts ABC’s “The View” and serves as the network’s senior legal correspondent. She is biracial—with a Black father and a Puerto Rican mother—and a Catholic who met her husband, who is also biracial, in church. As her well-told story illuminates, navigating those identities has taken perseverance, humor, luck, and smarts. Hostin’s voice is warm and clear, her delivery is animated without excessive drama, and her account of a low-income New York City kid who succeeds with hard work and chutzpah engages as it inspires. A.C.S. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine
The Emmy Award winning legal journalist and co-host of The View*Sunny Hostin chronicles her journey from growing up in a South Bronx housing project to becoming an assistant U.S. attorney and journalist in this powerful memoir that offers an intimate and unique look at identity, intolerance, and injustice.
“What are you?” has followed Sunny Hostin from the beginning of her story, as she grew up half Puerto Rican and half African-American raised by teenage parents in the South Bronx. Escaping poverty and the turbulence of her early life through hard work, a bit of luck and earning academic scholarships to college and law school, Sunny immersed herself in the workings of the criminal justice system. In Washington, D.C., Sunny became a federal prosecutor, soon parlaying her wealth of knowledge of the legal system into a successful career as a legal journalist. She was one of the first national reporters to cover Trayvon Martin's death-which her producers erroneously labeled “just a local story.”*
*Today, an inescapable voice from the top echelons of news and entertainment, Sunny uses her platform to advocate for social justice and give a voice to the marginalized. In her signature no-holds-barred, straight-up style, Sunny opens up and shares her intimate struggles with fertility and personal turmoil, and reflects on the high-stakes cases and stories she worked on as a prosecutor and during her time at CNN, Fox News, ABC and The View. Timely, poignant, and moving, I Am These Truths is the story of a woman living between two worlds, and learning to bridge them together to fight for what's right.*
The Emmy Award winning legal journalist and co-host of The View*Sunny Hostin chronicles her journey from growing up in a South Bronx housing project to becoming an assistant U.S. attorney and journalist in this powerful memoir that offers an intimate and unique look at identity, intolerance, and injustice.
“What are you?” has followed Sunny Hostin from the beginning of her story, as she grew up half Puerto Rican and half African-American raised by teenage parents in the South Bronx. Escaping poverty and the turbulence of her early life through hard work, a bit of luck and earning academic scholarships to college and law school, Sunny immersed herself in the workings of the criminal justice system. In Washington, D.C., Sunny became a federal prosecutor, soon parlaying her wealth of knowledge of the legal system into a successful career as a legal journalist. She was one of the first national reporters to cover Trayvon Martin's death-which her producers erroneously labeled “just a local story.”*
*Today, an inescapable voice from the top echelons of news and entertainment, Sunny uses her platform to advocate for social justice and give a voice to the marginalized. In her signature no-holds-barred, straight-up style, Sunny opens up and shares her intimate struggles with fertility and personal turmoil, and reflects on the high-stakes cases and stories she worked on as a prosecutor and during her time at CNN, Fox News, ABC and The View. Timely, poignant, and moving, I Am These Truths is the story of a woman living between two worlds, and learning to bridge them together to fight for what's right.*
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BN ID: | 2940172924385 |
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Publisher: | HarperCollins |
Publication date: | 09/22/2020 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
Sales rank: | 1,154,323 |
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