Waiting to Be Heard: A Memoir

Amanda Knox spent four years in a foreign prison for a crime she did not commit.
 
In the fall of 2007, the 20-year-old college coed left Seattle to study abroad in Italy, but her life was shattered when her roommate was murdered in their apartment.
 
After a controversial trial, Amanda was convicted and imprisoned. But in 2011, an appeals court overturned the decision and vacated the murder charge. Free at last, she returned home to the U.S., where she has remained silent, until now.

Filled with details first recorded in the journals Knox kept while in Italy, Waiting to Be Heard is a remarkable story of innocence, resilience, and courage, and of one young woman’s hard-fought battle to overcome injustice and win the freedom she deserved.
 
With intelligence, grace, and candor, Amanda Knox tells the full story of her harrowing ordeal in Italy—a labyrinthine nightmare of crime and punishment, innocence and vindication—and of the unwavering support of family and friends who tirelessly worked to help her win her freedom.  

Another book worth buying!

5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful and moving; a warning to young Americans 

By Alex_K

This book is several things at once: a story of growing up, of betrayal and loss, of innocence abused; and a strong indictment of a corrupt system. Any outsider can easily find himself trapped by an old-boy/old-girl network of self-serving cops, prosecutors and judges like that operating in Perugia. It's a system you can't beat. To make things worse, the prosecutor in the Knox-Sollecito case has a history of persecuting innocents but Italy does not seem to care. On reading about some particularly disgusting details of the Perugian authorities' misconduct, I doubt whether a new trial of Knox and Sollecito in Italy can possibly be fair.

This book is also a dire warning to young, idealistic Americans. Do not talk to strangers, kids are told; likewise, do not talk to cops if there is a slightest chance that you may be a suspect. Demand a lawyer at once, and shut up. Do not try to please people; they will think you're crazy or evil, and victimize you.
This book should become required reading in Italy, whose citizens have been deceived by the unscrupulous press. The book would make them see Amanda Knox's innocence - her essential innocence and goodness that were brutally abused in a modern witch hunt.