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Vanishing Acts
''Vanishing Acts'' (2005) is the twelfth novel by the American author Jodi Picoult. The novel is set in rural New Hampshire, and the story focuses on Delia Hopkins, a missing persons' investigator, and her family, including her young daughter, Sophie, her widowed father, Andrew, and her search and rescue bloodhound, Greta. Plot Delia Hopkins is a missing persons' investigator, who lives in New Hampshire with her widowed father Andrew and her young daughter Sophie. Delia works with her own search-and-rescue bloodhound to find missing people. Delia is on the verge of marrying Eric, a friend since childhood. Suddenly, she learns that her father has been arrested for her kidnapping as a young child. Narrative style ''Vanishing Acts'' is narrated through the perspective of five characters, including Delia, Eric, Andrew, and Fitz. Additionally, each character's chapter is given a different font. In the alternating narrative technique each character takes turns narrating events t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jodi Picoult
Jodi Lynn Picoult () is an American writer. Picoult has published 28 novels, accompanying short stories, and has also written several issues of Wonder Woman. Approximately 40 million copies of her books are in print worldwide, translated into 34 languages. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Picoult writes popular fiction which can be characterised as family saga. She frequently centres storylines around a moral dilemma or a procedural drama which pits family members against one another. Although she is often characterised as an author of chick-lit, over her career, Picoult has covered a wide range of controversial or moral issues, including abortion, assisted suicide, race relations, eugenics, LGBT rights, fertility issues, religion, the death penalty, and school shootings. She has been described as, "a paradox, a hugely popular, at times controversial writer, ignored by academia, who questions notions of what constitutes literature simply by d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Songs Of The Humpback Whale (novel)
''Songs of the Humpback Whale'' (1992) is the debut novel of Jodi Picoult. The book is about Jane, a woman who chooses to leave her emotionally abusive and distant husband behind in favor of driving across the country from San Diego, California to live with her brother in Massachusetts on an apple orchard. Her teenage daughter, Rebecca, chooses to come with her. Oliver, her husband, tracks them down in an attempt to save his family. Plot summary Jane Jones, a speech pathologist, has been married to Oliver Jones for almost twenty years. Together, they have a teenage daughter named Rebecca. Oliver is a world-renowned marine biologist. However, Oliver has a history of behaving emotionally abusive and emotionally unavailable. After a heated argument that culminated in Jane slapping Oliver, Jane calls her brother Joley, who is living and working on an apple orchard in Massachusetts. Through a series of letters awaiting the mother-daughter duo at designated post offices, Joley guides Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family Saga Novels
Family (from la, familia) is a group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its members and of society. Ideally, families offer predictability, structure, and safety as members mature and learn to participate in the community. Historically, most human societies use family as the primary locus of attachment, nurturance, and socialization. Anthropologists classify most family organizations as matrifocal (a mother and her children), patrifocal (a father and his children), conjugal (a wife, her husband, and children, also called the nuclear family), avuncular (a man, his sister, and her children), or extended (in addition to parents and children, may include grandparents, aunts, uncles, or cousins). The field of genealogy aims to trace family lineages through history. The family is also an important economic unit studied in family economics. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 American Novels
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The Storyteller (Picoult Novel)
''The Storyteller'' is the twenty-second novel written by the American author, Jodi Picoult. Plot 25-year-old Sage Singer lives in the small town of Westerbrook, New Hampshire. A couple of years before the story began, Sage and her mother were in a Traffic collision, car accident while Sage was driving. Sage's mother was killed in the crash, and Sage was left with a large scar across her cheek, which is a constant reminder that she was responsible for her mother's death. Sage is self-conscious about her facial scar, and chooses to wear her hair across her face in order to hide it. Sage works nights, alone, as a baker, as she believes that she deserves a lonely life. Sage believes that her sisters, Pepper and Saffron, blame her for their mother's death, so she actively avoids contact with them. Her best friend is Mary D'Angelis, an ex-nun who owns Our Daily Bread, the bakery where Sage works. Sage is in a relationship with the local funeral director, Adam, who also happens to be m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lone Wolf (Picoult Novel)
''Lone Wolf'' (2012) is the twentieth novel by the American author, Jodi Picoult and it is a ''New York Times'' bestselling book. The novel was released on February 28, 2012 through Atria Books and focuses on a man returning to his childhood home after a terrible accident. Plot Edward Warren has been living in Thailand for nearly 6 years, when he receives a frantic telephone call: His estranged family have been badly injured in a car accident in New Hampshire. Warren's father, Luke is comatose, and his sister, Cara, has also been injured. Cara still holds a grudge against Edward, ever since his departure led to their parents' divorce. In the wreckage of her parents' ruined marriage, Cara decides to live with her father - an animal conservationist who became famous after living with a gray wolf pack in the Canadian wilderness. It is almost impossible for Cara to reconcile the broken man in the hospital bed with her vibrant, dynamic father Development Picoult initially bega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sing You Home
''Sing You Home'' (2011) is the nineteenth novel by the American author, Jodi Picoult. The novel was released on March 1, 2011, and follows the story of a bisexual woman fighting for the right to use the frozen embryos created by her and her ex-husband. The novel features a companion soundtrack CD of ten original songs with lyrics written by Picoult, and music by her best friend, Ellen Wilber. Wilber also performs the songs on the CD in the voice of the story's main character, Zoe Baxter. Plot Zoe Baxter, a music therapist, and her husband, Max Baxter, have tried for a decade to have children, but it is revealed that they cannot have children because of fertility issues. Zoe has experienced multiple miscarriages, and she eventually learns that she suffers from polycystic ovary syndrome. On the other hand, Max learns that he has a genetic disease. Over the course of their marriage, they have tried five rounds of in vitro fertilization. After two miscarries, Zoe successfully beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Handle With Care (novel)
''Handle with Care'' (2009) is the 17th novel by the American author Jodi Picoult. It debuted at #1 on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list. Plot The story follows the life of a young girl, Willow O'Keefe, and her family. Willow has Type III osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), a disease also known as brittle bone syndrome. To her parents, Sean and Charlotte O'Keefe, the disease has meant many sleepless nights, mounting hospital and insurance bills, and the pitying stares of "luckier" parents. After a disastrous vacation to Walt Disney World that results in Willow severely breaking both of her femora, Sean and Charlotte visit a lawyer to inquire about a lawsuit against the park and hospital after park and hospital staff thought that Willow's broken bones indicated child abuse. The lawyer, Marin Gates, mentions a different possibility: a wrongful birth lawsuit against the OB/GYN that treated Charlotte during her pregnancy. Essentially, if the O'Keefe's had known earlier that their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Change Of Heart (novel)
''Change of Heart'' is the sixteenth novel by American author Jodi Picoult, published in 2008. The novel explores themes of loss, redemption, religion and spirituality, and punishment. Plot summary Prologue A man, Jack, is killed by an impaired driver, leaving his wife, June, and his daughter, Elizabeth behind. At the scene of the accident, June meets Kurt Nealon, a police officer, who becomes a close friend and later June's husband. A number of years later, June is pregnant and Kurt plans to create an addition onto their home. A young man named Shay Bourne offers to help with the addition, to which June explains is "the beginning of the end." The Trial Elizabeth, June's eldest daughter, and Kurt are found murdered. Shay, the construction worker, is identified as the only suspect. The case unfolds during the trial which becomes a media sensation. The jury convicts Shay of two counts of capital murder. The jury deliberates on the death penalty, and after much time, 11 members ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Rules (novel)
''House Rules'' (2010) is the eighteenth novel by the American author, Jodi Picoult. The novel focuses on a young adult male, Jacob Hunt, with Asperger syndrome, Asperger's syndrome living in Townshend, Vermont, Townsend, Vermont, who is accused of murder. The novel follows the struggle between Jacob and his family (consisting of his mother, Emma, and his younger brother, Theo), the law, and his disability.Picoult, Jodi. (2010). ''House Rules''. NYC, NY: Atria. Plot Eighteen-year-old Jacob Hunt lives with his mother Emma and his younger brother, Theo. Jacob has Asperger's syndrome, then considered a form of high-functioning autism. Jacob lives by a highly structured schedule and feels comfortable when all of his daily activities are pre-planned. Jacob thrives when he is able to engage in structured, focused activities, and he particularly enjoys things that are incredibly intellectual and academic. Emma is able to ensure that Jacob's anxiety and outbursts are infrequent by cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family Saga Novel
The family saga is a genre of literature which chronicles the lives and doings of a family or a number of related or interconnected families over a period of time. In novels (or sometimes novel sequence, sequences of novels) with a serious intent, this is often a thematic device used to portray particular historical events, changes of social circumstances, or the ebb and flow of fortunes from a multitude of perspectives. The word ''saga'' comes from Old Norse, where it meant "what is said, utterance, oral account, notification" and "(structured) narrative, story (about somebody)", and was originally borrowed into English from Old Norse by scholars in the eighteenth century to refer to the Old Norse prose narratives known as ''sagas''. , ''OED Online'', 1st edn (Oxford: Oxford University Press, December 2019). The typical family saga follows generat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
