Todo ello sirve de aderezo a una historia desgarradora. Creo que lo hace de forma magistral, porque, sin perder el hilo de la narración, nos recuerda estos eventos que sirven para iluminar si no el porqué, por lo menos el cómo y el cuándo. Interesante como Noah Hawley aprovecha un relato de ficción para de paso disertar sobre diferentes asesinos en serie e incluso para recordarnos diversos atentados contra la vida del presidente de los EEUU a lo largo de la historia. This is an absorbing and honest novel about the responsibilities-and limitations-of being a parent and our capacity to provide our children with unconditional love in the face of an unthinkable situation. Told alternately from the point of view of the guilt-ridden, determined father and his meandering, ruminative son, The Good Father is a powerfully emotional page-turner that keeps one guessing until the very end. Which may be why, at the age of nineteen, he quietly drops out of Vassar and begins an aimless journey across the United States, during which he sheds his former skin and eventually even changes his name to Carter Allen Cash. Allen is home with his family when a televised news report announces that the Democratic candidate for president has been shot at a rally, and Daniel is caught on video as the assassin.ĭaniel Allen has always been a good kid-a decent student, popular-but, as a child of divorce, used to shuttling back and forth between parents, he is also something of a drifter. In the harrowing opening scene of this provocative and affecting novel, Dr. He lives a contented life in Westport with his second wife and their twin sons-hard won after a failed marriage earlier in his career that produced a son named Daniel. Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up on. An intense, psychological novel about one doctor's suspense-filled quest to unlock the mind of a suspected political his twenty-year old son.Īs the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr.
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