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 beginning
of her story, as she grew up half Puerto Rican and half African-American raised
by teenage parents in the South Bronx. Escaping poverty and the turbulence of
her early life through hard work, a bit of luck and earning academic
scholarships to college and law school, Sunny immersed herself in the workings
of the criminal justice system. In Washington, D.C., Sunny became a federal
prosecutor, soon parlaying her wealth of knowledge of the legal system into a
successful career as a legal journalist. She was one of the first national
reporters to cover Trayvon Martin’s death—which her producers erroneously
labeled “just a local story.”
Today, an inescapable voice from the top echelons of news
and entertainment, Sunny uses her platform to advocate for social justice and
give a voice to the marginalized. In her signature no-holds-barred, straight-up
style, Sunny opens up and shares her intimate struggles with fertility and
personal turmoil, and reflects on the high-stakes cases and stories she worked
on 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 between
two worlds, and learning to bridge them together to fight for what’s
right.