August @ Sims Library
The Execution of Noa P. Singleton by Elizabeth Silver
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.
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.
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For someone conditioned through a tumultuous life (somewhat of her own
ReplyDeletemaking) not to trust anyone, and someone whose true secrets have
remained so for too long, Noa at first doubts Oliver and Marlene's
motivations. But as she begins her recounting of her life and the events
that led up to the murder, you begin to wonder who was truly at fault
for Noa's turning out the way she did. Was there more to the murder and
the trial then meets the eye? And, like Noa, you begin to wonder whether
Marlene truly represents her last chance at avoiding death, if she were
to want to in the first place.
From "Larry" at http://tinyurl.com/executionnoa
What do you think? Why doesn't Noa want to continue living? Why did she really kill Marlene's Daughter? Is her life as she made it or was she a victim of her upbringing?
For someone conditioned through a tumultuous life (somewhat of her own
ReplyDeletemaking) not to trust anyone, and someone whose true secrets have
remained so for too long, Noa at first doubts Oliver and Marlene's
motivations. But as she begins her recounting of her life and the events
that led up to the murder, you begin to wonder who was truly at fault
for Noa's turning out the way she did. Was there more to the murder and
the trial then meets the eye? And, like Noa, you begin to wonder whether
Marlene truly represents her last chance at avoiding death, if she were
to want to in the first place.