New Podcast Episode: An interview with Danya Kukafka, author of NOTES ON AN EXECUTION

This week on the podcast, we feature a conversation between LLF's Lainey Mays and author Danya Kukafka. Danya's Notes on an Execution is a gripping and atmospheric work of literary suspense that deconstructs the story of a serial killer on death row, told primarily through the eyes of the women in his life. It's our Lead Read title for the Winter 2022 season!

Check out some of the rave reviews coming in:

"A searing portrait of the complicated women caught in the orbit of a serial killer. Notes on an Execution examines a culture that romanticizes men who kill while also exploring the lives of the overlooked women altered by this violence. Compassionate and thought-provoking."

—Brit Bennett, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Half

 

"Provocative, intelligent, thrilling, moving."

—Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train

 

“Notes on an Execution is seriously important crime fiction that trains the lens on a serial killer's victims rather than on the criminal himself and shows how the legacy of violence endures for decades, leaving a tidal wave of collateral damage in its wake. Kukakfa's story is unflinching and unromantic yet wrenching and devastating in equal measure. Never falling into the easy trap of sensationalism, Notes on an Execution pushes women to the forefront of a narrative that has too often overlooked them and all they suffer.”
—Ivy Pochoda, award-winning author of These Women and Wonder Valley

Listen to the episode below:

Danya mentioned Savage Appetites by Rachel Monroe and The Fact of a Body by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich as books of Crime/True Crime she is loving right now. She also mentioned the following podcasts: One Click and Missing on 9/11. 

Also discussed: Tori Telfer's Lady Killers and Confident Women.

Check out the article about her love for pickles here.

Notes on an Execution is on sale January 25, 2022.
LibraryReads votes are due December 1, 2021!

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-Lainey