So far gone

the long version

Jack Connor is on death row for murdering his father, mother, and grandmother, and he is scheduled to be the first person executed in Massachusetts in fifty years. The priest assigned to counsel Jack during his last weeks suggests he write down everything he remembered about his life in the hope that some difficult questions may be resolved. Here is the Connors' story as told by Jack, augmented by testimony from various witnesses - neighbors, a cop, a fellow patient in a mental hospital, a prison guard, a woman who had met Jack Connor on one of his periodic trips away from home. So Far Gone is a novel, a profound, powerful book about family, childhood, and getting lost in America.