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We Drew Straws For My Death

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We Drew Straws For My Death is a novel in English. Chapters 1 and 2 can be read on this site as a free preview.

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From the back cover

Norah and her sister Grace both have leukemia, but Norah's is worse. With only enough savings to treat one of them, their parents draw straws. Norah draws the short one. Through a thin bedroom door she hears her parents argue over who should be saved first, her mother threatening to end her own life if Grace is not treated, her father calling it a knife to his throat. Norah decides she will not be that knife, and quietly hoards her sleeping pills.

Grace once gave up her acceptance to Boston University to stay home and care for Norah, and has pulled her back from the edge on dark nights. Their parents work themselves to collapse to keep the family afloat. On a humid summer evening, Norah's mother and father leave for work, and Norah crushes the pills into her rice and lies down.

Hours later her parents return to an unwashed plate and an unanswered door. Norah, now a spirit no one can see or hear, watches her mother's irritation, Grace's quiet kindness, and the family's grief closing in on a room they have not yet opened.

Inside the book Opening excerpt

There was only enough money in our parents' savings to treat one of us, so they decided to draw straws.

I thought it was just a cruel twist of fate, an unbiased hand of destiny. But then I heard them arguing through the thin bedroom door, their voices raw and strained:

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Contents

Chapters 1 and 2 are on this page. Chapters marked with a lock continue in the official app.

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Which chapters of We Drew Straws For My Death are free?

Chapters 1 and 2 are free to read on this page, in English. From chapter 3 the book continues in the official app.

Where do I keep reading We Drew Straws For My Death after chapter 2?

In the official app. Install it, enter code 593728, and the book opens where this preview stops — chapter 3.

What is We Drew Straws For My Death about?

Norah and her sister Grace both have leukemia, but Norah's is worse. With only enough savings to treat one of them, their parents draw straws. Norah draws the short one. Through a thin bedroom door she hears her parents argue over who should be saved first, her mother threatening to end her own life if Grace is not treated, her father calling it a knife to his throat. Norah decides she will not be that knife, and quietly hoards her sleeping pills.

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