Coffee & Conversation Book Discussion Group

May's Title: Defending Jacob by William Landay

Andy Barber has been an
assistant district attorney in his suburban Massachusetts county for
more than twenty years. He is respected in his community, tenacious in
the courtroom, and happy at home with his wife, Laurie, and son, Jacob.
But when a shocking crime shatters their New England town, Andy is
blindsided by what happens next: His fourteen-year-old son is charged
with the murder of a fellow student. Jacob insists that he is innocent,
and Andy believes him. Yet as damning facts and shocking revelations
surface, as a marriage threatens to crumble and the trial intensifies,
as the crisis reveals how little a father knows about his son, Andy will
face a trial of his own—between loyalty and justice, between truth and
allegation, between a past he’s tried to bury and a future he cannot

conceive.

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