{"product_id":"bird-uncaged-an-abolitionists-freedom-song","title":"Bird Uncaged: An Abolitionist's Freedom Song","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom a leading prison abolitionist, a moving memoir about coming of age in Brooklyn and surviving incarceration--and a call to break free from all the cages that confine us.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMarlon Peterson grew up in 1980s Crown Heights, raised by Trinidadian immigrants. Amid the routine violence that shaped his neighborhood, Marlon became a high-achieving and devout child, the specter of the American dream opening up before him. But in the aftermath of immense trauma, he participated in a robbery that resulted in two murders. At nineteen, Peterson was charged and later convicted. He served ten long years in prison. While incarcerated, Peterson immersed himself in anti-violence activism, education, and prison abolition work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBird Uncaged\u003c\/i\u003e, Peterson challenges the typical \"redemption\" narrative and our assumptions about justice. With vulnerability and insight, he uncovers the many cages--from the daily violence and trauma of poverty, to policing, to enforced masculinity, and the brutality of incarceration--created and maintained by American society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eBird Uncaged\u003c\/i\u003e is a twenty-first-century abolitionist memoir, and a powerful debut that demands a shift from punishment to healing, an end to prisons, and a new vision of justice.","brand":"Bold Type Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39329970454628,"sku":"9781645036517","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/bird-uncaged-an-abolitionists-freedom-song","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}