{"id":12024,"date":"2011-06-14T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=12024"},"modified":"2011-06-10T12:11:37","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T18:11:37","slug":"laws-of-our-fathers-by-scott-turow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/laws-of-our-fathers-by-scott-turow\/","title":{"rendered":"Laws of Our Fathers by Scott Turow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|755452\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-12035\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Laws-of-Our-Fathers1.jpg?resize=198%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Laws-of-Our-Fathers1.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Laws-of-Our-Fathers1.jpg?w=397&amp;ssl=1 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a>In <em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|755452\" target=\"_blank\">Laws of Our Fathers<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, Scott Turow alternates between a present day murder trial\u00a0 and the turbulent days of the\u00a0&#8217;60&#8217;s. The parties involved in the courtroom drama knew each other during their days as a radicals.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Seth, now a journalist, struggles to find common ground\u00a0with his father, a Holocaust survivor, both as a college student and 25 years later. Turow brings up the Biblical\u00a0story of\u00a0Abraham and Isaac, one of the first examples of a\u00a0father facing conflicting responsibilities and loyalties<\/p>\n<p>Never a standard thriller writer, Turow&#8217;s multilayered novel explores big ideas and themes such as morality, the law\u00a0 &#8211; and father-son relationships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Laws of Our Fathers, Scott Turow alternates between a present day murder trial\u00a0 and the turbulent days of the\u00a0&#8217;60&#8217;s. The parties involved in the courtroom drama knew each other during their days as a radicals.\u00a0\u00a0 Seth, now a journalist, struggles to find common ground\u00a0with his father, a Holocaust survivor,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/laws-of-our-fathers-by-scott-turow\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[1647,1649,1650,1648],"class_list":["post-12024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fathers","tag-law","tag-legal-intrigue","tag-sons"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-37W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12024"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12064,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12024\/revisions\/12064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}