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Elizabeth L. Silver

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Elizabeth L. Silver is the author of The Majority (Riverhead), The Tincture of Time (Penguin Press), The Execution of Noa P. Singleton (Crown), and more. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, the University of East Anglia’s Creative Writing MA, and Temple University Beasley School of Law, Elizabeth has written for New York Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Ms. Magazine, The Guardian, The Washington Post, and McSweeney’s. She currently teaches creative writing with UCLA and is the founder and director of Onward Literary, a writing mentorship program. She lives in Los Angeles with her family.

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	The Execution of Noa P. Singleton 3.34 avg rating — 8,883 ratings — published 2013 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“It's a funny phenomenon. You can never visit your own funeral, but if you want to see how people feel about you, commit a crime.”
― Elizabeth L. Silver, The Execution of Noa P. Singleton

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“But you see, the problem is that apologies are really just little weeds that grow over monuments and headstones. They keep coming back, but never stop ruining what lies beneath. If an apology is truly authentic, the pain is supposed to stop. Right?”
― Elizabeth L. Silver, The Execution of Noa P. Singleton

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“Jury trials are really nothing more than poorly written stage plays. You’ve got two authors writing opposing narratives and a director who is paid not to care about either outcome. Hired actors sit on either end of the stage, while unwitting audience members strive to remain quiet. No applause should be rendered, no gasps of glory. Witnesses sit agape with fury as they stumble across their rehearsed lines. If only they had practiced just once more. If only they had more time or a dress rehearsal, then they would recite their packaged words with such eloquent delivery that the critics in the jury box would believe only them.”
― Elizabeth L. Silver, The Execution of Noa P. Singleton

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