Second Glance: A Novel
Author(s):
Jodi Picoult
Label: Washington Square Press
Publisher(s):
Washington Square Press
Studio: Washington Square Press
Manufacturer: Washington Square Press
Binding: Paperback
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Editorial Reviews
Product Description
"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 fianc - e'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 come back to haunt us -- literally and figuratively. Do we love across time, or in spite of it?
Amazon.com Review
Ghosts and ghost hunters collide in this compelling tale of the paranormal set in Vermont's green mountains. When the patriarch of the Abenaki Indian tribe that was nearly eradicated by that state's eugenics project in the 1930s encounters Ross Wakeman, the miraculous survivor of several attempted suicides who wants nothing more than to be reunited with the woman he loved and lost, they set in motion a chain of events that will unravel an ancient murder and lead to a second chance at life and love for the victim's descendants. Picoult, author of Salem Falls, brings the past alive and peoples it with a cast of extraordinarily well-realized characters whose reach into the future touches the lives of a dying boy, a frightened girl, and their mothers--two women who've given up on love until the revenants stirred up by a plan to develop an ancient burial ground show them what they're missing. Second Glance is an intricate and suspenseful ghost story that enchants and illuminates all the way to its powerful conclusion. --Jane Adams
Customer Reviews
Very unpredictable book with a lot of human interests!
This book was a different direction for this author but a slam dunk for the first time stepping out of her realm. Picoult had different twists and turns in these story lines that all came in and tied together at the end. Every time I thought I knew what was going on or what was going to happen I was pleasantly surprised and embraced every twist and turn that she through at me througout the book. It was an insane ride that I would definitely recommend!
Loved it!!
I had read some of her other books and liked them. This was by far the best yet!! I love a book that can make me cry and this one did it!! Ordering the rest of her books hoping to find one just as good. So far sisters keeper is the closest.
This book has everything!
I didn't want this book to end - lots of twists and action, a real page turner! The book had everything - great character development, a real sense of place and time. I love "ghosty" stories - this had ghosts, and so much more. Jodi Piccoult is a wonderful writer and I really enjoyed how she wove her characters together through place and time in this book. I want more!!!
How can you not like Jodi?
This is by far Jodi's most paranormal book, encouraging the reader to have an open mind. In short, it's a ghost story, one that involves a seventy-year old murder. Luckily, we have on hand a paranormal investigator whose experience is quite convenient, plus a cast of other characters who very willingly except their town haunting, rose petals snowing from the sky, and other unexplainable peculiarities. Upon beginning the book, I was a bit bogged down by the sheer number of characters. It's a pretty large cast that spans the two storylines, one in the 1930's and the other in the present. The first third of the book introduces us to the town, the characters and the plot, but is suddenly interrupted for another third of the book to tell the first person account of the dead woman who is responsible for the present haunting. Then back to the main plot again for the final third of the book.
This is a very multi-layered book that explores how lives are intertwined and how the past dictates the future. It is it about death and its impact on life, even decades later. It is written in the style I have come to love about Jodi and with the mystery she presents as she unfolds the plot. Unlike many of her other books, this one does not include lawyers or courtroom scenes, just the haunting story of love, life, death, and destiny.
Second Glance
Not quite as good as other Jodi Picoult novels, but I haven't put it down yet either.
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