its called 19 minutes.
read half of JP’s my sister’s keeper (couple of months ago)which was about this girl who was born out of a test tube with genes n stuff like her sick sis.
was born to just donate blood, bone marrow etc to her sis.
talks about the test tube sis filing a law suit against her parents for infrindging her rights n stuff.
JP’s books touches on stuff other authors dont write normally.
and the way she writes is so real and close to heart, like you can almost relate to it, even if nothing really like it happens to you in reality.
and they’re so interesting n riveting!
found a new author to read on. :D
and if you wondering, no, she didnt pay me to advertise. (:
Synopsis of 19 Minutes:
In this emotionally charged novel, Jodi Picoult delves beneath the surface of a small town to explore what it means to be different in our society.
In Sterling, New Hampshire, 17-year-old high school student Peter Houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of classmates. His best friend, Josie Cormier, succumbed to peer pressure and now hangs out with the popular crowd that often instigates the harassment. One final incident of bullying sends Peter over the edge and leads him to commit an act of violence that forever changes the lives of Sterling’s residents.
Even those who were not inside the school that morning find their lives in an upheaval, including Alex Cormier. The superior court judge assigned to the Houghton case, Alex—whose daughter, Josie, witnessed the events that unfolded—must decide whether or not to step down. She’s torn between presiding over the biggest case of her career and knowing that doing so will cause an even wider chasm in her relationship with her emotionally fragile daughter. Josie, meanwhile, claims she can’t remember what happened in the last fatal minutes of Peter’s rampage. Or can she?
And Peter’s parents, Lacy and Lewis Houghton, ceaselessly examine the past to see what they might have said or done to compel their son to such extremes.
Nineteen Minutes also features the return of two of Jodi Picoult’s characters—defense attorney Jordan McAfee from The Pact and Salem Falls, and Patrick DuCharme, the intrepid detective introduced in Perfect Match.
Rich with psychological and social insight, Nineteen Minutes is a riveting, poignant, and thought-provoking novel that has at its center a haunting question.
Do we ever really know someone?
You can read the excerpt here: http://www.jodipicoult.com/nineteen-minutes.html
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