Knox Robinson Productions & Debra Heesch Presents:
AMANDA KNOX, In Conversation with Jeff Hoyt
Free: My Search For Meaning Reading, Q&A and Book Signing.
April 19, 5pm (doors open at 4:30pm)
Puget Sound Zen Center, Vashon Island

Author and activist Amanda Knox In Conversation with Jeff Hoyt to discuss her new book, Free: My Search for Meaning. Amanda reflects on her world-famous confinement in an Italian prison—and her return to an "ordinary" life—to reveal hard-won truths about purpose and fulfillment that will resonate with anyone who has ever felt trapped in their own circumstances.

Amanda Knox spent nearly four years in prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn’t commit—and became a notorious tabloid story in the process. Though she was exonerated, it’s taken more than a decade for her to reclaim her identity and truly feel free.

Purchase tickets for the book reading at https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6619480

Free: My Search for Meaning recounts how Knox survived incarceration, the mistakes she made and misadventures she had reintegrating into society, and culminates in the as-yet-untold story of her return to Italy and the extraordinary relationship she went on to build with the man who sent her to prison. It is the moving saga of how she wrestles back her own life from the grip of her story's notoriety and returns to the quiet matters of a normal life—seeking a life partner, finding a job, or even just going out in public.

In harrowing (and sometimes hilarious) detail, Amanda reveals her personal growth and hard-fought wisdom, recasting her public reckoning as a private reflection on the search for meaning and purpose that will speak to everyone who has persevered through hardship. 

Amanda Knox is an exoneree, journalist, public speaker, author of the New York Times best-selling memoir, Waiting to Be Heard, and co-host, with her partner Christopher Robinson, of the podcast Labyrinths. Between 2007 and 2015, she spent nearly four years in an Italian prison and eight years on trial for a murder she didn’t commit. She has since become an advocate for criminal justice reform and media ethics. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, TIME Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and many other places. She sits on the board of the Innocence Center and serves as an Innocence Network Ambassador.