Hamzah AD 2018

On the familial bonds of love, grief, and legacy

Editor’s Note: Press play above to listen to the author read her story aloud.

Hamzah came home and headed right to our door. We didn’t know he was coming that day. His last letter said he was going to face the board, and then nothing, and then he was standing there with a few hundred dollars, eight years’ worth of prison labor…