000			01867n a2200265 i 4500
001			062035
005			20231009193126.0
008			130516s2013 nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a2012048982
020			_a9781439102763
042			_apcc
050	0	0	_aPS3566.I372 _bS76 2013
082	0	0	_aFIC PIC
100	1		_aPicoult, Jodi _d, 1966-
245	1	4	_aThe storyteller _b: a novel _c/ Jodi Picoult.
250			_aFirst Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
300			_aix, 460 pages _c; 25 cm
520			_aPicoult reconfigures themes from her other bestsellers for her uneven new morality tale. 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. Sage, a Jew who now considers herself an atheist, begins to think more deeply about faith. Picoult examines the links between family identity, religion, humanity, and how it all figures in difficult decisions. The three-parter is narrated by several characters, including Sage's grandmother Minka, who survived the Holocaust. Snippets of a novel Minka wrote focus on a bloodthirsty beast, a metaphor for life in a death camp. Picoult's formulaic approach to Minka's accounts of the Holocaust is a cheap shot, but the author appreciates Sage's moral bind. 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. That conflict, and the complexity of a character who discovers herself through the trials of Josef and Minka, is the book's saving grace.
650		0	_aBakers _v--Fiction
650		0	_aFriendship _v--Fiction.
650			_aGood and evil _v--Fiction
650		0	_aEx-Nazis _v--Fiction
655		0	_aPsychological fiction.
942			_cMO
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