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Kukafka, Danya.
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Serial murderers -- Fiction.
Death row inmates -- Fiction.
Prisoners' families -- Fiction.
Edgar Award.
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Kukafka, Danya.
Serial murderers -- Fiction.
Death row inmates -- Fiction.
Prisoners' families -- Fiction.
Edgar Award.
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Notes on an execution : a novel / Danya Kukafka. .
by
Kukafka, Danya.
Harper Large Print, 2022.
Call #:
LP
FICTION
KUK
Subjects
Serial murderers --
Fiction
.
Death row inmates --
Fiction
.
Prisoners' families --
Fiction
.
Edgar Award.
ISBN:
9780063211391 (Large print pbk.)
Edition:
1st Harper Large Print ed.
Description:
465 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"In the tradition of Long Bright River and The Mars Room, a gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life -- from the bestselling author of Girl in Snow. Ansel Packer is scheduled to die in twelve hours. He knows what he’s done, and now awaits execution, the same chilling fate he forced on those girls, years ago. But Ansel doesn’t want to die; he wants to be celebrated, understood. He hoped it wouldn’t end like this, not for him. Through a kaleidoscope of women -- a mother, a sister, a homicide detective -- we learn the story of Ansel’s life. We meet his mother, Lavender, a seventeen-year-old girl pushed to desperation; Hazel, twin sister to Ansel’s wife, inseparable since birth, forced to watch helplessly as her sister’s relationship threatens to devour them all; and finally, Saffy, the homicide detective hot on his trail, who has devoted herself to bringing bad men to justice but struggles to see her own life clearly. As the clock ticks down, these three women sift through the choices that culminate in tragedy, exploring the rippling fissures that such destruction inevitably leaves in its wake. Blending breathtaking suspense with astonishing empathy, Notes on an Execution presents a chilling portrait of womanhood as it simultaneously unravels the familiar narrative of the American serial killer, interrogating our system of justice and our cultural obsession with crime stories, asking readers to consider the false promise of looking for meaning in the psyches of violent men."--Publisher.
Awards:
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, 2023.
Genre:
Suspense
fiction
.
Psychological
fiction
.
Psychological thriller.
Literary
fiction
.
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