Böcker av C. C. Skye

C'Mone Skye grew up on the mean streets of Chicago's West Side, where she routinely witnessed sad, bloody and terrifying events. Here, she spent way too much time bearing the burden of her twin brother's crimes. "Where's Tyrone?" friends and family would ask her. All too often, her answer was, "He's in jail." By his teens, he had become trapped in the cycle known as recidivism. Decades later, C'Mone was living in Wisconsin, 90 miles north of her hometown. It was during one of Tyrone's rare periods of freedom that she got a call from a Chicago police officer. He was hunting for her twin, and this time the charge was serious enough to put him away for many years. It was then that C'Mone decided to find the truth: Why was Tyrone repeatedly in jail? How could she help him make this incarceration his last? And what exactly did his problems have to do with her own? In this memoir, C'Mone looks at her family through the lenses of home, government, and church, three institutions that had always played significant roles in their lives. She discovers that she and Tyrone were suffering from "twin sins." And she finds the solution in the biblical story of Joseph, whose experience as a prisoner in Egypt unveiled legal and spiritual lessons pertinent to recidivism--not only for the Skye family but for anyone trapped in its clutches. That solution? A prisoner's pardon.

The book is a short poetic adaptation of the biblical story of Joseph's imprisonment in ancient Egypt. While there, he meets a butler and baker who works for Pharaoh. Both were imprisoned after committing an offense. Scripture doesn't tell why they were in prison, but this rendition with childlike innocence spurs the imagination about why.One night, the Butler and Baker have a dream that only Joseph can interpret. For one, it spells doom, and for the other, freedom. And using rhyming verse that even a child can understand, the story solves the mystery of release from captivity. Though there are many ways to interpret this story, the central message of the importance of truthfulness and forgiveness shines through.This is a winner worth a look due to its reference to a biblical case and its rendition based on the author's memoir A Prisoner's Pardon, which depicts her search within her family's background to find freedom for her twin brother, now gripped in the cycle of recidivism. She found that the loving and secure bond between child and parent was broken. The result is now a loss of a family's value and identity. Her quest now is to help reconcile the love of family and community through unveiling the unknown power of forgiveness.