It’s hard to place Noah Hawley’s book into a single category

The Good Father is an extraordinary book, one not easy to review. In some ways it’s hurtful, both in the reading and the reviewing. The Good Father has many of the aspects of a mystery, in that a murder has taken place, and in the typical style of mystery writing, the reader is led this way and that, given hints broad or subtle, but doesn’t—or at least shouldn’t— know until the last moment who the murderer is. Continue reading »