![]() Gemma’s house in 1984, where they are both foster kids. Saffron (Saffy) Singh first meets Ansel at Ms. ![]() She must save herself, or she will perish. Upon the birth of her second son, Lavender’s desperation to escape her life takes precedence above all else, even her sons. ![]() Her abusive husband is unforgiving in his demands that she and Ansel show the gratitude he deserves. In 1973, Ansel’s mother, Lavender, is only 17 when she gives birth to him in the barn at an isolated farm. Although the story begins with the countdown to his execution, the real focus of the novel is on the women involved in his life, and the lives of his victims. Serial killer Ansel Packer, inmate 999631, has only 12 hours to live. ![]() The book belongs, instead, to the women irrevocably changed by his actions. We rarely talk about what we lose when women die. In her author’s notes, Kukafka writes that the novel “was born from a desire to dissect this exhausted narrative, society’s fascination with serial killers. Bestselling author and literary agent Danya Kukafka was weary of society’s compulsive obsession with male serial killers-the focus should be on the victims and their families, she believes.Īs such, NOTES ON AN EXECUTION is not the serial killer’s story. ![]()
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