Review
From the book jacket: Trixie Stone is fourteen years old and in love for the first time. She's also
the light of her father's life - a straight-A student; a freshman in high school
who is pretty and popular; a girl who's always looked up to Daniel Stone as a
hero. Until, that is, her world is turned upside down with a single act of
violence...and suddenly everything Trixie has believed about her family - and
herself - seems to be a lie.
For fifteen years, Daniel Stone has been an even-tempered, mild-mannered man:
a stay-at-home dad to Trixie and a husband who has put his own career as a comic
book artist behind that of his wife, Laura, who teaches
Dante's Inferno at a
local college. But years ago, he was completely different: growing up as the
only white boy in an Eskimo village, he was teased mercilessly for the color of
his skin. He...
Beyond the Book
Jodi Picoult is the author of
Songs of the Humpback Whale (1992),
Harvesting the Heart (1994),
Picture Perfect (1995),
Mercy (1996),
The Pact (1998);
Keeping Faith (1999),
Plain Truth (2000),
Salem
Falls (2001),
Perfect Match (2002),
Second Glance (2003),
My Sister's Keeper
(2004),
Vanishing Acts (2005), and
The Tenth Circle (2006). In
2003 she was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction.
She was born and raised —happily—on Long Island… something that she believed
at first was a detriment to a girl who wanted to be a writer. "I had such an
uneventful childhood that when I was taking writing classes at college, I called
home and...
