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Author: Elizabeth L. Silver
ISBN : B00AP2VQYM
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An unforgettable and unpredictable debut novel of guilt, punishment, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive
Noa P. Singleton never spoke a word in her own defense throughout a brief trial that ended with a jury finding her guilty of first-degree murder. Ten years later, having accepted her fate, she sits on death row in a maximum-security penitentiary, just six months away from her execution date.
Seemingly out of the blue, she is visited by Marlene Dixon, a high-powered Philadelphia attorney who is also the mother of the woman Noa was imprisoned for killing. Marlene tells Noa that she has changed her mind about the death penalty and Noa’s sentence, and will do everything in her considerable power to convince the governor to commute the sentence to life in prison, in return for the one thing Noa is unwilling to trade: her story.
Marlene desperately wants Noa to reveal the events that led to her daughter’s death – events that Noa has never shared with a soul. With death looming, Marlene believes that Noa may finally give her the answers she needs, though Noa is far from convinced that Marlene deserves the salvation she alone can deliver. Inextricably linked by murder but with very different goals, Noa and Marlene wrestle with the sentences life itself can impose while they confront the best and worst of what makes us human in this haunting tale of love, anguish, and deception.
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- File Size: 1249 KB
- Print Length: 322 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 038534743X
- Publisher: Broadway Books (June 11, 2013)
- Sold by: Random House LLC
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00AP2VQYM
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,542 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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Epub The Execution of Noa P. Singleton: A Novel
Now, does that title make any sense whatsoever? Or does it seem like a series of words randomly strung together? (Hint: it's the latter.) Welcome to the world of first-time author Elizabeth L. Silver, who it seems never met a simile she didn't like.
Although this novel has an intriguing premise and was listed among Amazon's "Best Books of the Month" (a testament more to the skill of Ms. Silver's publicist than to the taste of Amazon's editors), it is unfortunately an abject failure. Apart from the wholly unsatisfying nature of the rather ridiculous final "reveal" of the crime, the writing is painfully overblown, consisting of page after page strewn with awkward and often nonsensical similes. A few examples:
"Marlene twisted her neck like the top of a soda bottle opening." (Sounds like Marlene will be needing a chiropractor.)
"It's isolating, like a termite scuffling up your innards." (Huh?)
"The pearl of blood dripped onto the white duvet like a spot of chocolate." (Yum.)
"A pale rough armor covered his mouth like scales from a striated fish." (Try as I might, I just can't make a sensible mental picture of this.)
"A smirk seeped out between my lips like an unsuspecting belch." (I've never seen a smirk between someone's lips, nor do I have any idea what a belch might suspect or not suspect.)
"Thirteen individuals, marinating in the enclosed jury box like a carton of dried-out fruit." (Um, if it's marinating, it's not dried out.)
"His heart was too visible outside his garments, where it resided like lint on a week-old sweater." (Is there a different kind of lint on a two-week-old sweater?
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