What does it mean to be accused of a crime you didn’t commit? And could you forgive the person who put you in prison?  Ron Cotton did.

Cotton, who spent more than a decade in prison for rape before being exonerated through DNA evidence, will speak with his “accuser” Jennifer Thompson-Cannino on Wednesday, Nov. 12. The two, now friends, are the authors of the GPC Reads 2014-15 selection, “Picking Cotton—Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption.”

Cotton will speak on the Georgia Perimeter College Dunwoody Campus at 10 a.m., in room NC-1100. Both Cotton and Thompson-Cannino will speak at 2 p.m. in the Cole Auditorium on the Clarkston Campus. They will sign books after their Clarkston talk.

Both events are free and open to the public. For information, go to www.gpc.edu/gpcreads