{"product_id":"seraphim","title":"Seraphim","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Seraphim  is a thrilling page-turner, as well as a deeply humane investigation  into the many forms of justice. It will make you look at the world  differently---as much as a book could hope to do.” - Jonathan Safran Foer, author, \u003ci\u003eEverything is Illuminated \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e From a former New Orleans public defender comes a gritty and thrilling interrogation of crime, violence, and the limits of justice in the chaotic times after Hurricane Katrina…\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA 16-year-old confesses to the murder of a local celebrity—a hero of New Orleans’s shaky post-storm recovery... The boy’s father, doing life in prison on the installment plan for a series of minor offenses, will do anything to save him...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEnter Ben Alder, a carpetbagging attorney (and former rabbinical seminary student) who has drifted down to New Orleans. He winds up defending them both. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBen and his partner, Boris, are public defenders obsessed with redeeming their case history of failures, and willing to do anything to protect their clients. As Ben tries to disrupt a corrupt and racist criminal justice system that believes an inexplicable crime has been solved, he confronts his own legacy of loss and faith. And as the novel hurtles towards its tragic, redemptive conclusion, Ben finds himself an onlooker and a perpetrator where he thought he was the hero.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA riveting and propulsive story about loyalty and grief, \u003ci\u003eSeraphim \u003c\/i\u003eis also an unflinching cross-examination of a broken legal system; a heartbreaking portrait of a beautiful, lost city, filled with children who kill and are killed; and a discomforting reflection on privilege, prejudice, and power.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50956772507936,"sku":"9781685891138","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9781685891138.jpg?v=1763747021","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/seraphim","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}