The more Joe learns about Carl-a Vietnam vet with two Purple Hearts and a Silver Cross-the more the young man questions the conviction. Carl, who maintains his innocence, is dying of cancer and has been released to a nursing home to end his life in lonely but unrepentant pain. For an assignment in his English class, he decides to interview Carl Iverson, a man convicted of raping and killing a 14-year-old girl. Although he has to leave his autistic younger brother, Jeremy Naylor, to the dubious care of their mother, Joe is determined to beat the odds and get his degree. The son of a single and very alcoholic mother, he’s worked hard to save enough money to leave his home in Austin, Minnesota, for the University of Minnesota. Joe Talbert has had very few breaks in his 21 years. A struggling student’s English assignment turns into a mission to solve a 30-year-old murder.
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