Such Good People: A Novel

An emotionally gripping, character-driven novel about the ripple effect of a split-second decision to protect a friend.

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“A poignant story of love, loss, loyalty, and being torn between right and wrong. You won’t be able to put this one down.”—Emily Liebert, USA Today best-selling author of Pretty Revenge

“One 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’s An American Marriage, Rebecca Searles’ In Five Years, and Allison Larkin’s The People We Keep will devour Amy Blumenfeld’s latest triumph. Such Good People is Such a Good Book!”—Samantha Greene Woodruff, author of The Lobotomist’s Wife and The Trade Off

It’s 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, he’s 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 Peter’s election for local office, Rudy is up for parole. Headlines explode about April’s past, jeopardizing Peter’s 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.