Books like Notes on an Execution
Ansel Packer has twelve hours until his execution in Texas, and the women his life has touched, his mother, his wife's sister and the detective who caught him, tell the story he thinks is his.
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Woman at Point Zero
Firdaus, a woman awaiting execution in a Cairo prison for killing a man, tells a psychiatrist the story of her life.
The Quiet Tenant
A small-town widower who has kept a woman chained in his shed for five years moves his daughter and his prisoner into a new house together, and the prisoner starts to look for a way out.
A Woman Is No Man
In 1990 Isra, seventeen, is married off in Palestine and taken to live with her husband's family in Brooklyn. In 2008 her daughter Deya, eighteen and under pressure to marry, starts to learn the truth about her mother.
Butter
Rika Machida, a journalist in Tokyo, sets out to land an interview with Manako Kajii, a gourmet cook in prison for allegedly killing her lovers, and the price of access is that Rika must cook and eat whatever Manako tells her to.
Infinite Country
Talia, fifteen, escapes from a reform school in the Colombian mountains to make the flight to New York that will reunite her with the family she was separated from as a baby.
The Mars Room
Romy Hall, a former stripper at San Francisco's Mars Room club, begins two life sentences at a women's prison in California's Central Valley, and the novel shows the people and system around her.
The River Is Waiting
Corby Ledbetter, laid off from his advertising job, is looking after his two-year-old twins while his wife teaches, and hiding an addiction to alcohol and pills, until a moment's carelessness at home ends in tragedy.
Monster
Steve Harmon, a sixteen-year-old from Harlem on trial for his part in a deadly drugstore robbery, tells his story as a screenplay he writes in his head, broken up by entries from his prison journal.
Saman
Four women and a priest navigate love, politics, and identity in Suharto-era Indonesia.
A Lesson Before Dying
In 1940s Louisiana a young Black teacher is asked to visit a man sentenced to death for a killing he did not commit, so that he can face the electric chair as a man rather than as what his own lawyer called him.
The Shards
A teenager in 1980s L.A. discovers that a serial killer may be operating in his wealthy community, and the memoir-novel hybrid blurs truth and fiction like everything Ellis writes.
An American Marriage
Celestial and Roy are newlyweds in Atlanta with bright futures when Roy is sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he did not commit, and as the years pass, she finds comfort in Andre, her childhood friend and their best man.