I am reading (listening to) The Good Father, the second novel I've read this month whose theme is a father's perspective of events when his son commits a heinous crime. Just coincidence...This wayward lad's crime is to shoot and kill a beloved Presidential candidate. An interesting twist on the story is that the father intersperses the history and psychological analysis of similar, non-fiction events - the Robert Kennedy assassination, the attempt on the life of Ronald Reagan, the Clock Tower massacre at Austin Texas and other unfortunate events. What caused the perpetrators to cross the line from sanity to insanity? From "normal" (albeit quirky) to deranged?
Do we all harbor a psychotic gene just waiting for the wrong set of circumstances to push us over the edge? Scary! But it makes for a very interesting story...
Thank you Noah Hawley.
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