Agent: Laura Gross, the Laura Gross Literary Agency. That conflict, and the complexity of a character who discovers herself through the trials of Josef and Minka, is the book’s saving grace. Nearly half of the book is devoted to a verbose, sad recounting of Minka’s time during the war, but the real conflict lies within Sage. Picoult’s formulaic approach to Minka’s accounts of the Holocaust is a cheap shot, but the author appreciates Sage’s moral bind. Snippets of a novel Minka wrote focus on a bloodthirsty beast, a metaphor for life in a death camp. In an early scene, an unworldly daring meet up laughs at the prospect of a war that happened 70 years back in a pretentious tone. The three-parter is narrated by several characters, including Sage’s grandmother Minka, who survived the Holocaust. In the Storyteller Picoult looks at the effect of the holocaust in present day society, as survivors left to recount their stories are currently rare and their pertinence is lost on a few. Picoult examines the links between family identity, religion, humanity, and how it all figures in difficult decisions. Jodi Picoult is the 1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-six novels, including A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, The Storyteller. Sage, a Jew who now considers herself an atheist, begins to think more deeply about faith. Twenty-five-year-old reclusive baker Sage Singer befriends the elderly Josef Weber, who shares something shocking from his past and asks her to help him die, a request that pins Sage between morality and retribution. Picoult (Change of Heart) reconfigures themes from her other bestsellers for her uneven new morality tale.

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