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The Laws of Our Fathers ::
Drawing on drama of the courtroom, which has proven again and again to be an inexhaustible well of stories revealing some fundamental truth about who we are, Scott Turow explores how a group of baby boomers and their children struggle through a court case involving a state senator, two gang members, a deviant parole officer, and one murdered mother. What started out to be a clear case of a jealous, faltering son plotting to murder his massively incomprehensibly successful father turns out to be a multi-layered tale of betrayal, of nearly botched pseudo-politically-motivated crimes, and sense of political idealism that defined politics in the 1960’s and, for better or worse, has endured three decades and must be reinterpreted by all of the characters three decades later. The Laws of Our Fathers is incredibly gripping and thought-provoking. I can’t help but think of it as a version of Pynchon’s Vineland that you can actually read.
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