Word: sethe
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Members of both sides praised the informal format of the event, which College Democrats president Seth D. Hanlon '98 termed a "free...
...Eddgar family; she also learns that Nile's defense lawyer is Hobie Tuttle, a former Black Panther and another old pal from her flower-child youth in California. Worse still, she spots her live-in boyfriend from those days among the reporters covering the trial. He is Seth Weissman, who is now, under an assumed name, a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist...
...trial of Nile Eddgar is not primarily what Turow's novel is about. He is concerned instead with the emotional states of Sonny and Seth, who loved each other during the heady days of drugs and protests and who now, a quarter-century later, are stuck with the care-worn grownups they have separately become. "Having had such high hopes for the world," Sonny muses, "are we the unhappiest adult generation...
...this mode Turow's usually sure hand loses some grip. It becomes clear that Sonny and Seth--she divorced, he unhappily married--will sooner or later revisit their pasts and collapse into bed together. What seems a little surprising is that he offers her a marijuana joint afterward and she tokes up. And neither of these two intensely self-absorbed people considers the moral implications of their behavior--i.e., that Sonny's duties as a judge involve handing out sentences for doing the very thing she and Seth are enjoying...
Turow obviously cares about Sonny and Seth and the lost possibilities they might somehow redeem, so much so that he cannot give his main characters the ironic distance their actions seem to require. This triumph of the heart over the head is a weakness concealing a strength. For The Laws of Our Fathers gathers considerable emotional power toward the end. The funeral of Seth's father, a Holocaust survivor and once the bane of his rebellious son's existence, calls together a number of the novel's main characters plus a cross-section of Kindle County, old and young, black...