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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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“My first Jodi Picoult and I wasn’t disappointed. Very easy reading and managed to get through the c.560 pages surprisingly quickly!
I felt like this was well researched which contributed to the imagery and scene setting nicely.
I loved the plot twist - it carries a lot of weight and meaning showing that two people may be completely opposite ends of the social hierarchy, but can have commonality in their shared experiences and outcomes.
I don’t sympathise with Peter (being a victim of bullying doesn’t give you a hall pass to shoot down a school xoxo) but I do with Josie as she was an unsung victim in all this. I loved Alex’s and Patrick’s characters, individually but specifically in tandem.
Deducting 0.5 because the chapters were so long (one of them was 80 something pages!!)”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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