Sunday, January 4, 2009
Plain Truth
Okay, I know I have read a lot of Jodi Picoult before, but I heard really good reviews on this one. So it starts out with a discovery of a dead newborn baby in an Amish barn. The detective blamed the eighteen year old daughter living there named Katie. Ellie, a lawyer and the cousin of Katie, even though they have never met, takes Katie's case. All the evidence is against them because the morning the baby was found, Katie was bleeding vaginally. She was brought to the hospital and they diagnosed that she had had a baby the night before. She however denied it completely. This was very bad considering she was not married and she was Amish. Her faith didn't allow out of marriage intercourse. The next day in court, Ellie ends up volunteering to be Katie's watcher for the next six weeks, meaning she has to stay on the Amish farm with Katie. Katie's father, Aaron, does not approve at all. Katie continues to deny the pregnancy, the birth, and the death. Her boyfriend admits to never having known about the pregnancy and is devastated. Katie is shunned from her faith for six weeks and her father refuses to speak to her. Ellie brings in Cooper, a psychologist, to talk Katie out of her ignorance of all the events of that fateful night. Ellie and Cooper end up falling in love and Katie's brother who quit the Amish religion so he could go to college apparently has been having Katie come visit him since he left. Could she have found a romance there? I don't know, but I hope to find out!
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This is a good summary. It sounds like a very good book. I've never read any books from this author, but I might have to start.
EMI.
I totally recommended this book to you (:. But anyways, I see you're enjoying it so far, and I know why. I read this book (and Salem Falls, which you need to read) over spring break last year and I literally could not put them down. They're both amazing. I really enjoyed this book because it gives you a taste of family drama, some courtroom scenes, a little bit of romance, while also explaining a little bit about the Amish culture, something I knew basically nothing at all. I love this book because it's not one of those totally predictable books, it keeps you hanging on the edge of your seat until the very end. Have fun reading it, once again, YOU'LL LOVE IT.
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