A Spark of Light
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. "Picoult at her fearless best . . . Timely, balanced and certain to inspire debate."--The Washington Post
Look for Jodi Picoult's new novel, By Any Other Name, available now The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center--a women's reproductive health services clinic--its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages he glances at it and, to his horror, finds out that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic. But Wren is not alone. She will share the next and tensest few hours of her young life with a cast of unforgettable characters: A nurse who calms her own panic in order to save the life of a wounded woman. A doctor who does his work not in spite of his faith but because of it, and who will find that faith tested as never before. A pro-life protester, disguised as a patient, who now stands in the crosshairs of the same rage she herself has felt. A young woman who has come to terminate her pregnancy. And the disturbed individual himself, vowing to be heard. Told in a daring and enthralling narrative structure that counts backward through the hours of the standoff, this is a story that traces its way back to what brought each of these very different individuals to the same place on this fateful day. One of the most fearless writers of our time, Jodi Picoult tackles a complicated issue in this gripping and nuanced novel. How do we balance the rights of pregnant women with the rights of the unborn they carry? What does it mean to be a good parent? A Spark of Light will inspire debate, conversation . . . and, hopefully, understanding. Look in the back of the book for reader's discussion questions and a conversation with Jodi Picoult.
Look for Jodi Picoult's new novel, By Any Other Name, available now The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center--a women's reproductive health services clinic--its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages he glances at it and, to his horror, finds out that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic. But Wren is not alone. She will share the next and tensest few hours of her young life with a cast of unforgettable characters: A nurse who calms her own panic in order to save the life of a wounded woman. A doctor who does his work not in spite of his faith but because of it, and who will find that faith tested as never before. A pro-life protester, disguised as a patient, who now stands in the crosshairs of the same rage she herself has felt. A young woman who has come to terminate her pregnancy. And the disturbed individual himself, vowing to be heard. Told in a daring and enthralling narrative structure that counts backward through the hours of the standoff, this is a story that traces its way back to what brought each of these very different individuals to the same place on this fateful day. One of the most fearless writers of our time, Jodi Picoult tackles a complicated issue in this gripping and nuanced novel. How do we balance the rights of pregnant women with the rights of the unborn they carry? What does it mean to be a good parent? A Spark of Light will inspire debate, conversation . . . and, hopefully, understanding. Look in the back of the book for reader's discussion questions and a conversation with Jodi Picoult.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0345545001
ISBN13:9780345545008
Release Date:September 2019
Publisher:Ballantine Books
Length:400 Pages
Weight:0.76 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"
Customer Reviews
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Hard Hitting Women's Fiction
Published by TinaLovesToRead , 3 years ago
This is a Hard Hitting Women's Fiction book. This book covers a very hot topic, and a topic that there will never be a time that everyone is on the same side. I am not going to say what side I am on, but I am on the side of respecting everyone's right to decide what side they are on. I also think that gun violence is never the right way. This book shows both sides of the topic very well, and it shows what happen when gun violence is used when you are really upset. I loved how this book made you think, and I loved the characters. I loved all the characters back stories. I hated...I really hated that this story was told backwards. I have read books told backwards that worked, but it just did not work in this book. The reasons it did not work is because the time period this book covers is so small, and the characters are in a very small location that you can really tell if one thing moves or changes. Like, One character (not saying names so I do not give anything away) is shot then in the next hour that character is not shot because it is going backwards. I had to keep stopping, and reminding myself this book is going backwards.
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