We even see how he plans to manipulate the people around him to try and make a break from death row. We readers will have little doubt that Ansel is an evil person. You is Ansel Packer, and all of his chapters count down the hours of his last day on earth. This book is an incredible feat of writing. Kukafka flips the perspective on us, a choice that raises a lot of questions about justice, guilt, and retribution. The other narrators-the detective who hunts down You and the evidence to put You away, the sister of one of You’s victims, You’s mother-are a step removed by having their chapters written in the third person. Having “You” tell their own story forces us into the experience of a very bad person, waiting to receive the ultimate penalty. Not only does Kukafka put us into a death row cell along with one of the primary narrators of the novel, she also writes these chapters in the second person. The first pages of Danya Kukafka’s unsettling novel, Notes on an Execution, set the stage for a very uncomfortable read.
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