Jacquelyn Mitchard: The Good Son

New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Mitchard talks to Carol Fitzgerald about her new novel, The Good Son. Stefan was 17 when he was sent to prison for the murder of his girlfriend. Three years later, he is released and his mother watches the community turn against him, while she grapples with her own son committing such a crime. Jacquelyn talks to Carol about the struggles characters face when up against impossible emotions, and why she wrote the book in the first person. She says she had the first two sentences from the start; Carol calls them a great “cold open.” They reminisce about The Deep End of the Ocean, which was Jacquelyn's first novel and Oprah’s first Book Club pick. This was more than 25 years ago in 1996, the same year that The Book Report Network launched. Book Discussed in this Episode: The Good Son by Jacquelyn Mitchard https://www.bookreporter.com/reviews/the-good-son-by-jacquelyn-mitchard/about More Bookreporter Talks To: The Cage: https://youtu.be/Ef9yeUqu418 Black Cake: https://youtu.be/_dRi_xh11XM Eternal: https://youtu.be/-SCBGFZeoaM Check out our Bookaccino Book Club live events! William Kent Krueger: https://youtu.be/dX-mHWLmv5k Jim DeFede: https://youtu.be/y2im_W_wGsw Sign up for the weekly Bookreporter.com newsletter here: http://tbrnetwork.com/newsletters/bookreporter-weekly-newsletter-subscribe FOLLOW US Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bookreporter Website: https://www.bookreporter.com Photography Credit: Greg Fitzgerald