Second Glance by Jodi Picoult

I just got done reading another great book by Jodi Picoult. Kristin introduced this author to me last year. Once again, it is one of those book that you can't put down.

A synopsis from the book,"Sometimes I wonder....Can a ghost find you, if she wants to?""An intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal, Second Glance begins in current-day Vermont, where an old man puts a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from the local Abenaki Indian tribe, who insist it's a burial ground. When odd, supernatural events plague the town of Comtosook, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents that there's nothing spiritual about the property.Enter Ross Wakeman, a suicidal drifter who has put himself in mortal danger time and again. He's driven his car off a bridge into a lake. He's been mugged in New York City and struck by lightning in a calm country field. Yet despite his best efforts, life clings to him and pulls him ever deeper into the empty existence he cannot bear since his fiancee's death in a car crash eight years ago. Ross now lives only for the moment he might once again encounter the woman he loves. But in Comtosook, the only discovery Ross can lay claim to is that of Lia Beaumont, a skittish, mysterious woman who, like Ross, is on a search for something beyond the boundary separating life and death. Thus begins Jodi Picoult's enthralling and ultimately astonishing story of love, fate, and a crime of passion. Hailed by critics as a "master" storyteller (Washington Post), Picoult once again "pushes herself, and consequently the reader, to think about the unthinkable" "(Denver Post). Second Glance," her eeriest and most engrossing work yet, delves into a virtually unknown chapter of American history -- Vermont's eugenics project of the 1920s and 30s -- to provide a compelling study of the things that comeback to haunt us -- literally and figuratively. Do we love across time, or in spite of it?

It took a little while to get into the book because there were a number of different characters that were being introduced and you had to try and figure what was going on. But once all the connections and interconnection came together, it was a hard book to put down.

Jodi Picoult is coming to Wisconsin.I bet she would be a great author to listen to. Here is her schedule:


Wednesday March 12 MILWAUKEE, WI 7 PM Alverno College's
Pitman Theatre, 3401 S. 39th St. books sold by Harry W.
Schwartz Bookshops (414) 270-3434. $33 ticket includes
admission to the event and a copy of Change of Heart.
Alverno College will handle ticket sales. The box office
number is (414) 382-6044 or www.alverno.edu.

Thursday March 13 MADISON, WI 7 PM Borders Books, 3750
University Avenue, 630-574-0800