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 beginningof her story, as she grew up half Puerto Rican and half African-American raisedby teenage parents in the South Bronx. Escaping poverty and the turbulence ofher early life through hard work, a bit of luck and earning academicscholarships to college and law school, Sunny immersed herself in the workingsof the criminal justice system. In Washington, D.C., Sunny became a federalprosecutor, soon parlaying her wealth of knowledge of the legal system into asuccessful career as a legal journalist. She was one of the first nationalreporters to cover Trayvon Martin's death-which her producers erroneouslylabeled "just a local story." Today, an inescapable voice from the top echelons of newsand entertainment, Sunny uses her platform to advocate for social justice andgive a voice to the marginalized. In her signature no-holds-barred, straight-upstyle, Sunny opens up and shares her intimate struggles with fertility andpersonal turmoil, and reflects on the high-stakes cases and stories she workedon 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 betweentwo worlds, and learning to bridge them together to fight for what'sright.
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 beginningof her story, as she grew up half Puerto Rican and half African-American raisedby teenage parents in the South Bronx. Escaping poverty and the turbulence ofher early life through hard work, a bit of luck and earning academicscholarships to college and law school, Sunny immersed herself in the workingsof the criminal justice system. In Washington, D.C., Sunny became a federalprosecutor, soon parlaying her wealth of knowledge of the legal system into asuccessful career as a legal journalist. She was one of the first nationalreporters to cover Trayvon Martin's death-which her producers erroneouslylabeled "just a local story." Today, an inescapable voice from the top echelons of newsand entertainment, Sunny uses her platform to advocate for social justice andgive a voice to the marginalized. In her signature no-holds-barred, straight-upstyle, Sunny opens up and shares her intimate struggles with fertility andpersonal turmoil, and reflects on the high-stakes cases and stories she workedon 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 betweentwo worlds, and learning to bridge them together to fight for what'sright.
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