β Scribed by Elizabeth L. Silver
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
A beguiling debut novel about the stories we tell ourselves to survive, the scars that never fade and the things we choose to call the truth.
**** Noa P. Singleton speaks not a word in her own defense throughout a brief trial that ends with a jury finding her guilty of first-degree murder. Ten years later, a woman who will never know middle age, 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 heartbroken mother of the woman Noa was imprisoned for killing. She 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 -- if Noa will finally reveal what led her to commit her crime.
Noa and Marlene become inextricably linked through the law, shared...
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