I just finished reading The Storyteller. I really enjoy Jodi Picoult's books as her themes tend to center around complex human relationships, moral issue, and have a crime twist to them.
The Storyteller, is Jodi Picoult's newest book. The main characters are Sage a solitary baker filled with grief & guilt, a well respected elderly neighbor named Josef who confesses to have been a nazi SS guard, and Sage's maternal grandmother Minka a holocaust survivor. After befriending Sage: Josef asks her to do a favor for him... to help him die. Sage must then confront her Jewish heritage & the difficult topics of guilt, forgiveness, and justice.
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| Read an excerpt here |
The book is divided into 3 sections with a fairytale woven through it. Articulate, dark, and complex this book will bring you to tears at times. The second portion of the book is when Sage's grandmother tells her holocaust story which I found particularly hard to read. It is sad to know that this is a chapter in human history.
I have read some negative comments about how Ms. Picoult ends the book. I believe after reading it that the way that Ms. Picoult left the ending is the same reason that Sage's grandmother ended her story the ways she did
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Jodi Picoult gives a wonderful interview on the www.JodiPicoult.com website about her reasoning for the subject matter of The Storyteller you can read it here.
If you read this book and enjoyed it you may want to check out the following book as well:
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| The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman |
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