A Good Man by Ani Katz review – sordidly gripping
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jan/05/a-good-man-by-ani-katz-review
A man struggles to come to terms with how his perfect life has gone so badly wrong, but how credible is his story?
Thomas Martin always thought he was a good man. But from the start of this debut thriller by the US writer Ani Katz, it’s clear he has ruined his perfect life and hurt “my girls”, as he refers to wife Miriam and teenage daughter Ava. That he uses this diminutive, possessive appellation is no coincidence: here is a man who considers his role to be that of protector, provider and ultimately controller of women.
The term “unreliable narrator” seems like gross understatement: Thomas is slippery as an eel. He claims he’s trying to understand how things went so wrong in his successful career in advertising and life with his gorgeous French wife on Long Island. He delves into his disturbed childhood with an abusive father, suicidal older sister and creepy younger twin sisters, too. We meet these two, still living in the old family home in a state of arrested development (think The Shining meets Grey Gardens).
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