Lawrence's review
The Good Wife: A Novel
by Stewart O'Nan
Lawrence's review
The Good Wife: A Novel by Stewart O'Nan
Lawrence's review
rating:
The difficulties of waiting for, supporting, etc. a loved one who is in jail are explored in this novel. Patty endures much as she "stands by her man," including a not altogether supportive family, raising a son as a single mother, and keeping her life together. Very matter of fact style conveys the passing of time and the living of life. Not sure I entirely bought the reality of the legal proceedings, especially with regard to the co-defendant's sentence. But took it to represent the non-lawyer's and person-entangledd-in-the-system's view of the legal system.
