The whole golden world
By: Kristina Riggle
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 419
ISBN-13: 9780062206459
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Mothers and daughters; Trials (Statutory rape); Spouses; Teacher-student relationships; Fiction
Description: Seventeen-year-old Morgan Monetti shocks her parents and her community with one simple act: She chooses to stand by the man everyone else believes has exploited her, popular high school teacher TJ Hill. Quietly walking across a crowded courtroom to sit behind TJ, and not beside her parents, she announces herself as the adult she believes herself to be.  But her mother Dinah wants justice.  Dinah is a fighter, and she believes with all her heart and soul that TJ is a man who took advantage of her daughter. He is a criminal who should be brought to justice, no matter what the cost to his family.  Rain, TJ''s wife, is shocked that her handsome, loving, respected husband has been accused of a terrible crime. But has her desperation to start a family closed her eyes to the fault lines in her marriage? And can she face the painful truths about herself and her husband?
Notes: Includes interview with the author and discussion questions.