This weekly meme was started by @Lauren’s Page Turners. It is now being hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog. To participate, choose a random book from your GoodReads TBR and show it off. Which sounds easy enough until you have to decide how to choose that book! I think I will use a different way each week, like picking a color or number of pages. I will let you know each week how I chose the book and then something interesting about it, like how it ended up on the list or why I want to read it. Got it? Okay let’s get started.
For this week’s post I chose a book that has a title starting with the letter ‘F’. This author is best known for a book he wrote way back in the nineties. He isn’t a prolific writer, but his books stay with you. I still remember his book Snow Falling on Cedars and how it made me feel. This one sounds just as good.
The Final Case by David Guterson
Publication Date: January 2022
Summary from Goodreads:
A provocative new novel from the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars–a moving father-son story that is also a taut courtroom drama and a bold examination of privilege, power, and how to live a meaningful life.
A girl dies one late, rainy night a few feet from the back door of her home. The girl, Abeba, was born in Ethiopia. Her adoptive parents, Delvin and Betsy Harvey–conservative, white fundamentalist Christians–are charged with her murder.
Royal, a Seattle criminal attorney in the last days of his long career, takes Betsy Harvey’s case. An octogenarian without a driver’s license, he leans on his son–the novel’s narrator–as he prepares for trial.
So begins The Final Case, a bracing, astute, and deeply affecting examination of justice and injustice–and familial love. David Guterson’s first courtroom drama since Snow Falling on Cedars, it is his most compelling and heartfelt novel to date.
This has a rather low rating on Goodreads, but with a quick perusal of the reviews it looks like one of those books that you either love or don’t. I am going to give it a chance and I hope to at least like it.
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