It is the strongest part of the book, and a big chunk of it.īut the rest of "The Storyteller" is a mess. At the heart of the book is the tale of Minka - a captivating, haunting, gut-wrenching Holocaust story. In typical Picoult style, each chapter is told through the eyes of a different character. In the process, Sage learns more about her grandmother Minka's own story of surviving the Holocaust, a tale that - in an unsurprising surprise - has links to that of Josef's. Sage decides instead to report Josef to the authorities, who encourage her to find out more about him. Soon, Josef asks Sage to help him die, a fate he says he deserves because he was a Nazi officer. The novel is about Sage Singer, a young woman from a Jewish background who becomes friends with Josef, an older German man in town. In "The Storyteller," Picoult breaks the pattern to a degree, and fails, badly. Reading Jodi Picoult novels is sort of like watching episodes of "Law & Order." There's a fairly routine formula, a couple of twists, as well as a courtroom scene. "The Storyteller" (Atria), by Jodi Picoult
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