Knopf Doubleday
March 2012
On Sale: March 20, 2012
320 pages ISBN: 0385535538 EAN: 9780385535533 Kindle: B005O1BYL4 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
As the Chief of Rheumatology at Columbia Presbyterian, Dr.
Paul Allen's specialty is diagnosing patients with
conflicting symptoms, patients other doctors have given up
on. 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. In
the harrowing opening scene of this provocative and
affecting novel, Dr. 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.
Daniel 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. 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.
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. 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.
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