Synopsis

An emotionally gripping, character-driven novel about the ripple effect of a split-second decision to protect a friend.A poignant story of love, loss, loyalty, and being torn between right and wrong. You wont be able to put this one down.Emily Liebert, USA Today best-selling author of Pretty RevengeOne of those multi-dimensional must-reads that wins both as a page-turning legal story about social injustice, prejudice and redemption, and an emotional character-driven tale of love, family, and lifelong friendship. Fans of Tayari Jones An American Marriage, Rebecca Searles In Five Years, and Allison Larkins The People We Keep will devour Amy Blumenfelds latest triumph. Such Good People is Such a Good Book!Samantha Greene Woodruff, best-selling author of The Lobotomists Wife and The Trade OffIts 10 p.m. on a Thursday in the spring of her freshman year of college, and April is standing at the back of a crowded Manhattan bar waiting for her friend, Rudy, to arrive. Their eyes lock the moment he enters the room, and in an instant, lives and legacies are altered forever. Within hours, Rudy is arrested. Within days, April is expelled. Within weeks, hes incarcerated. And within months, she meets Peter, a prodigious young attorney who makes her world recognizable again. Nearly fifteen years later, April is happily living in Chicago married to Peter, a mother of three with a fulfilling career and standing yoga date with her girlfriends. On the eve of Peters election for local office, Rudy is up for parole. Headlines explode about Aprils past, jeopardizing Peters campaign and everything they hold dear. Suddenly, April is faced with an impossible choice: protecting the life she created, or the person who sacrificed everything to make that life a possibility. Such Good People is a captivating portrait of blurred lines, divided loyalties, and what it means to love purely, steadfastly, and interminably.

About The Author

Amy Blumenfeldgrew up in Queens, New York. She is a graduate of Barnard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she received the James A. Wechsler Award for national reporting. Her essays and articles have appeared on the cover ofPeople, inThe New York Times, The Huffington Post, O, The Oprah Magazine, as well inGeorgewhere she worked as a staff editor and writer.Amys debut novel,The Cast, was selected as aNew York PostBest Book of the Week and named Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award in Popular Fiction. She has also been a contributing author to a best-selling anthology and two non-fiction books. Amy lives in New York with her husband and daughter.

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