Seraphim
By Joshua Perry
Melville House Publishing
262 pages
Ben is not Joshua.
Ben grew up in a college town in Massachusetts.
Joshua grew up in a college town in Connecticut — New Haven.
Ben is a fictional public defender seeking to extract moments of approximations of justice amid the crumbling court system in post-Katrina New Orleans.
Joshua was a real-life public defender struggling to extract moments of approximations of justice amid the crumbling court system in post-Katrina New Orleans. Now back in New Haven (working as the state’s solicitor general), Perry, 46, wrote a newly-published novel that details the quest of a public defender — Ben — to extract moments of approximations of justice amid the crumbling court system in post-Katrina New Orleans.
