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Also by Jacquelyn Mitchard:

The Birdwatcher, December 2025
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
A Very Inconvenient Scandal, November 2023
Hardcover / e-Book
The Good Son, April 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
The Good Son, January 2022
Hardcover / e-Book
What We Lost In The Dark, December 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
What We Saw At Night, January 2013
Hardcover / e-Book
Second Nature: A Love Story, September 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
A Theory Of Relativity, January 2011
Paperback
Because I Love Her, April 2009
Trade Size
Still Summer, September 2007
Hardcover
Cage of Stars, May 2006
Hardcover
The Breakdown Lane, April 2006
Paperback (reprint)
The Breakdown Lane, April 2005
Hardcover
The Deep End of the Ocean, October 1999
Trade Size (reprint)

THE GOOD SON
By: Jacquelyn Mitchard

A Novel

MIRA
April 2023
On Sale: March 21, 2023
Featuring: Thea
400 pages
ISBN: 0778333450
EAN: 9780778333456
Kindle: B08QZMDJSD
Trade Paperback / e-Book
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Other Editions
Hardcover (January 2022)

Women's Fiction Psychological | Coming of Age

What do you do when the person you love best becomes unrecognizable to you? For Thea Demetriou, the answer is both simple and agonizing: you keep loving him somehow.

Stefan was just seventeen when he went to prison for the drug-fueled murder of his girlfriend, Belinda. Three years later, he’s released to a world that refuses to let him move on. Belinda’s mother, once Thea’s good friend, galvanizes the community to rally against him to protest in her daughter’s memory. The media paints Stefan as a symbol of white privilege and indifferent justice. Neighbors, employers, even some members of Thea's own family turn away.

Meanwhile Thea struggles to understand her son. At times, he is still the sweet boy he has always been; at others, he is a young man tormented by guilt and almost broken by his time in prison. But as his efforts to make amends meet escalating resistance and threats, Thea suspects more forces are at play than just community outrage. And if there is so much she never knew about her own son, what other secrets has she yet to uncover—especially about the night Belinda died?