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A review by shirin_mandi
The Final Case by David Guterson
5.0
"You already know about sadness, there can’t be anything in the book sadder than what you already know."
It is very hard to express my feelings, heartbroken, touched, sorrowful, and even wonder, how could this happen! How’d we come to this?
"The whole thing was sad. To tell you the truth, a lot of things in my work are sad. It’s sort of a sad world to have to move around in.”
This could be three stories. A writer, the narrator, his criminal attorney father, and his last case, an Ethiopian girl.
This was mostly a court story, not a mystery. An American parent was accused of killing her adopted Ethiopian daughter. When their four other children described the day their sister died, it was so sad!
"She’d had the sinking feeling, hurrying home, leaving everybody else behind, running, finally, with tears blurring her vision, that something was wrong with people. You would think, she said, that people were better than that."
This was a very emotional story with a unique writing style. The relationship between father and son is beautifully expressed. The story of the tragic life of Abigail was so moving. A very unforgettable read.
Undying Thanks to Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group via NetGalley to give me a chance to read The Final Case by David Guterson, I have given my honest review.
Pub Date: 11 Jan 2022
Review Date: 04 Jan 2022
It is very hard to express my feelings, heartbroken, touched, sorrowful, and even wonder, how could this happen! How’d we come to this?
"The whole thing was sad. To tell you the truth, a lot of things in my work are sad. It’s sort of a sad world to have to move around in.”
This could be three stories. A writer, the narrator, his criminal attorney father, and his last case, an Ethiopian girl.
This was mostly a court story, not a mystery. An American parent was accused of killing her adopted Ethiopian daughter. When their four other children described the day their sister died, it was so sad!
"She’d had the sinking feeling, hurrying home, leaving everybody else behind, running, finally, with tears blurring her vision, that something was wrong with people. You would think, she said, that people were better than that."
This was a very emotional story with a unique writing style. The relationship between father and son is beautifully expressed. The story of the tragic life of Abigail was so moving. A very unforgettable read.
Undying Thanks to Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group via NetGalley to give me a chance to read The Final Case by David Guterson, I have given my honest review.
Pub Date: 11 Jan 2022
Review Date: 04 Jan 2022