When Josef Weber, an elderly man in Sage’s grief support group, begins stopping by the bakery, they strike up an unlikely friendship. She works through the night, preparing the day’s breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother’s death. That conflict, and the complexity of a character who discovers herself through the trials of Josef and Minka, is the book's saving grace.An astonishing novel about redemption and forgiveness from the “amazingly talented writer” ( HuffPost) and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult. 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. The three-parter is narrated by several characters, including Sage's grandmother Minka, who survived the Holocaust. Picoult examines the links between family identity, religion, humanity, and how it all figures in difficult decisions. 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. In this searingly honest novel, Jodi Picoult gracefully explores the lengths to which we will go in order to keep the past from dictating the future. With the integrity of the closest friend she’s ever had clouded, Sage begins to question the assumptions and expectations she’s made about her life and her family.
If she says yes, she faces not only moral repercussions, but potentially legal ones as well. Despite their differences, they see in each other the hidden scars that others can’t.Įverything changes on the day that Josef confesses a long-buried and shameful secret and asks Sage for an extraordinary favor. An astonishing novel about redemption and forgiveness from the “amazingly talented writer” ( HuffPost) and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult.
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