![]() ![]() Picoult's writing is so welcoming, beautiful, and piercing that you feel your heart break into another piece every time you. Agent: Laura Gross, the Laura Gross Literary Agency. For me, the most salient part of The Storyteller was when Minka, Sage's grandmother, shared her story about surviving Auschwitz and the other horrors she endured during the Holocaust. That conflict, and the complexity of a character who discovers herself through the trials of Josef and Minka, is the book’s saving grace. ![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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