His two parents adopt very different coping strategies as Jacob’s mother, Laurie, turns inwards and disintegrates while Andy at times appears strangely distant and adopts a “my child can do no wrong” stance that appears to be at odds with his statement of “I don’t have a parenting style.
The only thing possibly worse than the death of a child is your child being responsible for the death of another and the novel charts the trials and tribulations of the Barber family through the initial murder, suspicion, arrest and trial. Beware potential spoilers to follow below. The book deals with the difficult subject matter of the death of a child which is exacerbated when his own son, the Jacob of the title, becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a classmate. (For further details see: )ĭefending Jacob is recounted from the perspective of Andy Barber who is the lead assistant district attorney and who normally takes the murder cases that arise as he’s primarily a trial lawyer rather than the political operators found elsewhere in the DA’s office but nothing about what his family are to undergo can be considered normal. I decided to read this following a ringing endorsement by Joseph Finder hailing it as one of the best books of the year for 2012…that’s some claim to make in January.
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