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    Second Glance: A Novel
    Second Glance: A Novel
    Second Glance: A Novel
    Audiobook16 hours

    Second Glance: A Novel

    Written by Jodi Picoult

    Narrated by George Guidall

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    This breathtaking novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult asks: Do we love across time, or in spite of it?

    “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 fiancée’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 (The 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 come back to haunt us—literally and figuratively. Do we love across time, or in spite of it?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateMar 29, 2016
    ISBN9781508224259
    Author

    Jodi Picoult

    Jodi Picoult received an AB in creative writing from Princeton and a master’s degree in education from Harvard. The recipient of the 2003 New England Book Award for her entire body of work, she is the author of twenty-seven novels, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers House Rules, Handle With Care, Change of Heart, and My Sister’s Keeper, for which she received the American Library Association’s Margaret Alexander Edwards Award. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children. Visit her website at JodiPicoult.com.

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    • 5/5
      I think it's enough to say that i felt involved in the story all along, felt never bored and couldn't put it down until I finished it. The storyteller did a great job with his unique low voice and superb acting skills too. You have to be very watchful though with the lots of names and threads. But once you get the hang of it it, you feel captivated and will not let go.
    • 5/5
      It's an intricate story . Real life issues woven into a ghost story. You don't even realize how deep the issues were until you right in the middle of them.
    • 3/5
      Ms Picoult is a good story teller, the characters are nicely developed. But I find the books overly long and they could be much shorter.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I love her books! Great twists & never disappoints

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    • 5/5
      So much fun to delve into the spirit world then to discover more about eugenics. Interesting combination of ghost and science. I liked it.

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    • 4/5
      A story intertwined with seperate lives all forming part of the puzzle which will eventually fall into place! Everything is connected with twists from the past and present glued together with a mix of love and hope struggling against a self proclaimed superiority! However I think it dragged along a bit, but still a very enjoyable story.

      1 person found this helpful