02084cam a2200349 i 4500 625980550 TxAuBib 20220105120000.0 210305s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021010322 9780525521327 hardcover 0525521321 hardcover (OCoLC)1240826519 DLC DLC eng eng rda rda DLC rda Y$5 rda DLC SNR OJ4 YDX BDX CNNWP SDD TXAAL TxAuBib Y$5 SNR OJ4 YDX BDX CNNWP SDD TXAAL TxAuBib rda Guterson, David, author. The final case / David Guterson. First Edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022. 245 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier From the award-winning, best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars-- a moving father-son story that is also a taut courtroom drama and a bold examination of privilege, power, and how to live a meaningful life. A girl dies one late, rainy night a few feet from the back door of her home. The girl, Abeba, was born in Ethiopia. Her adoptive parents, Delvin and Betsy Harvey--conservative, white fundamentalist Christians--are charged with her murder. Royal, a Seattle criminal attorney in the last days of his long career, takes Betsy Harvey's case. An octogenarian without a driver's license, he leans on his son--the novel's narrator--as he prepares for trial. So begins The Final Case, a bracing, astute, and deeply affecting examination of justice and injustice--and familial love. David Guterson's first courtroom drama since Snow Falling on Cedars, it is his most compelling and heartfelt novel to date. 20220105. Interracial adoption Fiction. Child abuse Fiction. Trials (Murder) Fiction. Fathers and sons Fiction. Legal fiction (Literature.) Fiction. TXAAL