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"My Time Will Come" by Ian Manuel is the true story of the author's decades long struggle to secure freedom from a lifetime prison sentence for a crime he committed as a young teenager. Manuel details the vicious nature of America's system of mass incarceration and provides just one story of the many teenagers who are sentenced to a life behind bars for crimes they committed at a young age. Manuel spends decades, mostly in solitary confinement, searching for any avenue that will prove that the length of time for which he was sentenced never gives him the space to reestablish himself in society as a grown man who has learned from his actions. With the help of Bryan Stevenson and his team of lawyers at The Equal Justice Initiative, Manuel is released from prison. While his story is hopeful for Manuel himself, it barely shows promise for the people stuck behind bars without choice representation. "My Time Will Come" is interspersed with poems Manuel wrote during his time in prison and highlights that while each person is responsible for his or her own actions, the trauma experienced by people living in poverty often leads people, especially young people, to make decisions that are may not have been made under different circumstances. This book is really outstanding.