Confession

Bad opening. Way too melodramatic, but she definitely made up for it later. Other than that, it was probably my second favorite of her works. Quite good. I didn't catch on until late in the book to the crux of things and I was totally stunned by the explanation of one of the character's motivations. Cain is so human. There is a passage when she talked about she and her husband. She saw herself through his eyes, he saw himself through her eyes and they became each other and became one. She couldn't separate dream from reality, but it was all so vivid. I knew what she was saying and she said it beautifully.

Jenny Cain and her husband Geof are surprised one day when a 17 year old boy shows up on their door step claiming to be Geof's son. He wants Geof, who is a cop, to prove that his father didn't murder his mother and then commit suicide. The book wandered too much into weird discussions of religion and had a very depressing ending. I've read other books in the Jenny Cain series and liked them.