The Record

Ross Kemper sold farm equipment across five states for thirty-one years, and he kept every receipt. On death row in Missouri, with nineteen days left, he sets out to write the one account he has never been able to give: of the women in nine towns, of the hours he cannot remember, and of the paper that proves where a man was standing when he swears he was not there.

Told backward from the gurney and forward from the road, The Record is a confession by a man who cannot feel what he did — and a portrait of the wife and daughter who read all eleven thousand pages of him and did not look away.