By: Jodi Picoult
FIVE out of FIVE stars
my thoughts:
Jodi Picoult never does give you a straight black and white choice. There is always a twist in how to look at the everyday. She doesn't disappoint in this book. Sage, the main character, is asked by her new friend to kill him. The twist, he was an SS guard. Not enough of a twist, her Grandma is a Holocaust survivor. The more Sage tries to tell the story to an investigator the more she isn't believed until she is able to show the real story. That's just me trying to not give away too much of the story.
the run down:
Sage Singer befriends an old man who's particularly beloved in her community. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. They strike up a friendship at the bakery where Sage works. One day he asks Sage for a favor: to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses…and then he confesses his darkest secret - he deserves to die, because he was a Nazi SS guard. Complicating the matter? Sage's grandmother is a Holocaust survivor.
What do you do when evil lives next door? Can someone who's committed a truly heinous act ever atone for it with subsequent good behavior? Should you offer forgiveness to someone if you aren't the party who was wronged? And most of all - if Sage even considers his request - is it murder, or justice?
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