The whole golden world
By: Kristina Riggle
Edition: Large Print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print women's fiction; Thorndike Press large print women's fiction series
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 635
ISBN-13: 9781410466020
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Retribution; Teacher-student relationships; Husband and wife; Mothers and daughters; Statutory rape; 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? Told from the perspectives of these three women, The Whole Golden World navigates the precarious territory between childhood and adulthood, raising questions about love and manipulation, marriage and motherhood, consent and responsibility.