Nineteen Minutes
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.
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Heavy content in this book. It’s an odd feeling to empathize with a character that caused so much destruction. However, this book is an excellent read to understand the effects bullying has on children and the extremes it may lead them to.
I can’t understand why this book has been under attack lately. Banning this book from schools would be a mistake.
I can’t understand why this book has been under attack lately. Banning this book from schools would be a mistake.
I love Jodi Picoult's books, particularly that she is wonderful at weaving all the aspects of a story together in order for the ending to be naturally poetic. This book was inexplicably all over the place. There were aspects that were introduced into the book, but never resolved and the ending happened entirely too fast and sloppily. I don't know, perhaps it's just me, but I feel like Ms. Picoult was under a deadline and wasn't able to formulate the ending in her normal fashion.
Not an easy book to read, but as usual Jody takes the reader through everyone's point of view and makes the journey so enjoyable.
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