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A review by martyfried
Gone, Baby, Gone by Dennis Lehane
5.0
This was a sad book with a sad ending for all. It illustrates the old saying "No good deed goes unpunished."
It's also a good book for a group read, I think. There are issues that make for good discussions, like whether it's right to break the law for a good cause, and whether it's right to take a child away from his/her mother if the mother is deemed to be unfit. We would like to think our infallible government is qualified and willing to decide this issue, but according to this book, they very rarely ever actually do this. But can we allow some arbitrary private citizen to decide? Of course not, because there are a lot of invalid reasons that this citizen might think protects the child, such as a gay parent, a Muslim parent, etc.
But aside from the dark issues, it was hard to put down, and the plot was not at all straight-forward.
It's also a good book for a group read, I think. There are issues that make for good discussions, like whether it's right to break the law for a good cause, and whether it's right to take a child away from his/her mother if the mother is deemed to be unfit. We would like to think our infallible government is qualified and willing to decide this issue, but according to this book, they very rarely ever actually do this. But can we allow some arbitrary private citizen to decide? Of course not, because there are a lot of invalid reasons that this citizen might think protects the child, such as a gay parent, a Muslim parent, etc.
But aside from the dark issues, it was hard to put down, and the plot was not at all straight-forward.