My Midnight Years

In the Margins Book Award Winner Ronald Kitchen was walking to buy cookies for his young son on a summer evening in 1988 when Chicago detectives picked him up for questioning. As the officers' car headed toward the precinct, the twenty-two-year-old called out the window to his family, "e;I'll be back in forty-five minutes."e; It took him twenty-one years to make it home. Kitchen was be...