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Nineteen Minutes
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Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Small Great Things, pens her most riveting book yet with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.
Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened before her very own eyes--or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show--destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else, and whether anyone is ever really who they seem to be.
Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's best witness, but she can't remember what happened before her very own eyes--or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show--destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else, and whether anyone is ever really who they seem to be.
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“As expected, this was a very heavy read. I can see why it made a splash in the literary community at the time of its publishing. This is my first Jodi Piccoult book, so I was pleased to see how well written and accessible it is. It was a long novel and took me longer than my usual to finish. But I’m glad I read it and would recommend it to someone wanting to get into more emotionally heavy lit fic.”
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“Almost dnf’d halfway through bc honestly you can’t make me feel bad for a school shooter, but it picked up the pace and I thought it was a decent thriller. The twist at the end felt unnecessary though. 🤷🏻♀️”Emily Amabile
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“I love the way Jodi Picoult always makes me question the way I see the world simply by telling stories from multiple points of view. This book will always get 5 stars from me and I truly believe every parent and high-school student should read it.”
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“I have a lot of thoughts about this, but mostly think it’s incredible how the author made me sympathize with Peter but at the same time feel horrified how it could end like that.
Tis book showed how much effect bullying can have on a person and what it makes people do. Peter first didn’t do anything, mostly didn’t understand what made him so different that people were picking on him. Josie walked another path, changed herself like a chameleon so she could ‘fit in’ but still could see how horrible people around her were.
The cafeteria part really broke my heart. It’s something so mortifying to happen to a teenager and I really can not understand the fun in bullying. I just can’t understand it, why people would do that.
I also found it beautiful to see the pov’s of the parents of Peter. Their child might not be dead but they are grieving, they will never see their child anymore as he was and they already went through a death of a child. You could understand the conflicting feelings they had, they wanted to help their child but at the same time were confused about how it could have happened. What they did do wrong? What could they have done differently?
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Kinda ironic (in my head) how Jordan talked about battered woman syndrome when talking about Peter, but in the end Josie kinda had that. She was scared of Matt and his actions and couldn’t do anything about it until the end.”
About Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult received an AB in creative writing from Princeton and a master’s degree in education from Harvard. The recipient of the 2003 New England Book Award for her entire body of work, she is the author of twenty-seven novels, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers House Rules, Handle With Care, Change of Heart, and My Sister’s Keeper, for which she received the American Library Association’s Margaret A. Edwards Award. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children. Visit her website at JodiPicoult.com.
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