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Jodi Picoult received an BA in creative writing from Princeton University and a master's degree in education from Harvard University. Her ten novels include The Pact (a recent Lifetime TV movie); Keeping Faith, Salem Falls, Plain Truth, and Perfect Match. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband, three children, and a cow, dog and rabbit. Her official website is www.jodipicoult.com.
Second Glance
An intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal, Second Glance begins in current-day Vermont, where an old man puts a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from the local Abenaki Indian tribe, who insist it's a burial ground. When odd, supernatural events plague the town of Comtosook, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents that there's nothing spiritual about the property. Enter Ross Wakeman, a suicidal drifter who has put himself in mortal danger time and again. He's driven his car off a bridge into a lake. He's been mugged in New York City and struck by lightning in a calm country field. Yet despite his best efforts, life clings to him and pulls him ever deeper into the empty existence he cannot bear since his fiancee's death in a car crash eight years ago. Ross now lives only for the moment he might once again encounter the woman he loves. But in Comtosook, the only discovery Ross can lay claim to is that of Lia Beaumont, a skittish, mysterious woman who, like Ross, is on a search for something beyond the boundary separating life and death. Thus begins Jodi Picoult's enthralling and ultimately astonishing story of love, fate, and a crime of passion. Second Glance, her eeriest and most engrossing work yet, delves into a virtually unknown chapter of American history -- Vermont's eugenics project of the 1920s and 30s -- to provide a compelling study of the things that come back to haunt us -- literally and figuratively. Do we love across time, or in spite of it?
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Jodi Picoult's Summer Reading List
The Probable Future
by Alice Hoffman
Well, Alice could write the phone book over and I'd read it. I'm not just anticipating this release; I'm practically salivating.
All He Ever Wanted
by Anita Shreve
I've heard a lot about this historical character study, and am looking forward to another solid story by another solid storyteller.
Say When
by Elizabeth Berg
I'm cheating a little here; because I read this as an advanced reader's copy...but it was so compelling I'm going to read it again. Berg outdoes herself creating the character of a man who is just coming to terms with his life going to pieces.
Saints of Big Harbour
by Lynn Coady
My husband and I are driving through Nova Scotia in June, and I plan to take this on the road with us --- it's a story about an insular community there, and the people who inhabit it.
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
by J.K. Rowling
I have to buy TWO copies of this so that my boys don't come to blows; maybe one of them will let me borrow it when they finish!
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