The Execution of Noa P. Singleton A Novel

Elizabeth L. Silver, Rebecca Lowman, Amanda Carlin

eAudio - 2013

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 c...ommute the sentence to life in prison, in return for the one thing Noa is unwilling to trade: her story. Marlene desperately... more