Victor Suthammanont: Hollow Spaces, Counterpoint, ebook available now

"Hollow Spaces" was a NY Times Book Editors choice which prompted me to read this portrait of a flawed lawyer, the only Asian partner in a law firm, accused of having murdered his mistress, also a lawyer in his firm. 

His children Brennan and Hunter reunite years later, trying to make sense of what really happend;  their father was aquitted but never regained his life and their lives5 still overshadowed by the past, Brennan believing him to be innocent, her brother not.  The terminal illness of their mother prompts them to set out to uncover the truth. In part of course a whose done it, told in dual time lines with John Lo's and his children's voice, the narration is a finely drawn portrait of the catastrophic consequences their father's love for another woman had on their family. It is at times a heartbreaking story about discrimination, false expectations,  estrangement and does not have a glossy ending. I thought the book dragged on at times but all in all a fine psychological portrait of a tragic fall of a man and an excellent plot.