The Good Son
Book Feature - The Good Son by Jacquelyn Mitchard
HBL Note: Jacquelyn Mitchard is a #1 New York Times bestselling author. Her book The Deep End of the Ocean, was the first book to ever be selected by Oprah’s Book Club, twenty-five years ago. How is that for a claim to fame? Jacquelyn is out with a new novel, THE GOOD SON, which asks, “What do you do when your child does something unimaginable, like commit murder?”
I am always fascinated with the spark of an idea that leads an author to write a novel. And this spark is especially intriguing. Jacquelyn had a chance encounter with a woman in line for coffee at a hotel. She learned the woman stayed in that hotel every weekend when she visited her son who killed the only girl he’d ever loved and was serving 27 years in prison. Jacquelyn couldn’t help buy wonder how that mother must be feeling and that wonder turned into THE GOOD SON. Scroll down to read more.
Book Feature - The Good Son by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Book Feature - The Good Son by Jacquelyn Mitchard
From the publisher:
What do you do when the person you love best becomes unrecognizable to you? For Thea Demetriou, the answer is both simple and agonizing: you keep loving him somehow.
Stefan was just seventeen when he went to prison for the drug-fueled murder of his girlfriend, Belinda. Three years later, he’s released to a world that refuses to let him move on. Belinda’s mother, once Thea’s good friend, galvanizes the community to rally against him to protest in her daughter’s memory. The media paints Stefan as a symbol of white privilege and indifferent justice. Neighbors, employers, even some members of Thea's own family turn away.
Meanwhile Thea struggles to understand her son. At times, he is still the sweet boy he has always been; at others, he is a young man tormented by guilt and almost broken by his time in prison. But as his efforts to make amends meet escalating resistance and threats, Thea suspects more forces are at play than just community outrage. And if there is so much she never knew about her own son, what other secrets has she yet to uncover—especially about the night Belinda died?
Book Feature - The Good Son by Jacquelyn Mitchard
