A Good and Happy Child

by Justin Evans

A Washington Post Best Book of 2007

“Beautifully written and perfectly structured. . . . This novel is much more than The Omen for the latter generation, and Evans cleverly subverts expectations at every turn.” –Washington Post

In the smart and suspenseful A Good and Happy Child, a psychological thriller in the tradition of Donna Tartt’s The Secret History with shades of The Exorcist, a young man reexamines his childhood memories of strange visions and erratic behavior to answer disturbing questions that continue to haunt him and his new family.

(From Publisher).

JUSTIN EVANS is a strategy and business development executive in New York City, where he lives with his wife and their two children. This is his first novel.

Unable to hold his infant son, a new father seeks psychological help and unwittingly uncovers a horrifying blackness in his own memories. Unnerving and sometimes terribly sad, Evan's debut novel is a subtle, sophisticated horror.