book review the storyteller jodi picoult

In this searingly honest novel, Jodi Picoult gracefully explores the lengths we will go in order to protect our families and to keep the past from dictating the future. When does a moral choice become a moral imperative? And where does one draw the line between punishment and justice, forgiveness and mercy? With her own identity suddenly challenged, and the integrity of the closest friend she’s ever had clouded, Sage begins to question the assumptions and expectations she’s made about her life and her family. Sunday Express Jodi Picoults new book will leave you thinking about its story.

Another must-read novel from the author that Huffman post described as an amazingly talented writer. Sage Singer is a young woman who has been damaged by her past. If she says yes, she faces not only moral repercussions, but potentially legal ones as well. The Storyteller is the twenty-first novel by award-winning American author, Jodi Picoult. The Storyteller Jodi Picoult is about a baker who suffers with grief after her mother’s death and finds an unlikely friendship with someone else plagued by grief. Despite their differences, they see in each other the hidden scars that others can’t, and they become companions.Įverything changes on the day that Josef confesses a long-buried and shameful secret-one that nobody else in town would ever suspect-and asks Sage for an extraordinary favor. When Josef Weber, an elderly man in Sage’s grief support group, begins stopping by the bakery, they strike up an unlikely friendship. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother’s death.

Book review the storyteller jodi picoult