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Book tip: "Defending Jacob"

Published 02/02/2012 12:00 AM
Updated 02/01/2012 02:11 PM

William Landay

Delacorte Press

These are creepy times, and a literary study of a family in crisis can resonate on many levels. The titular Jacob is a 14-year-old boy accused of murdering a bullying classmate. Jacob's mother and father - the latter being a district attorney in the idyllic Massachusetts town where they live - are at first shocked their quiet son could be accused of such a crime. But as the courtroom procedural begins to play out, it at least becomes obvious they don't know Jacob near as well as they'd thought. Still, they steadfastly stand by their boy. The in-court scenes are wrenching; as local outcasts, the family's introspection and crumbling relationships with one another are heartbreaking and grippingly revealing; and an out-of-nowhere conclusion will feel like someone slipped up and clubbed you with a baseball bat. Wow.

- RICK KOSTER

Town News

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