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The Tenth Circle: A Novel
Jodi Picoult

Washington Square Press, 2006 - 416 pages

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another picoult book!

Harder to read than some of the others, because the plot was more convoluted... but still definitely worth reading!


Not Picoult's best...

Readers who are familiar with Dante's Inferno, will appreciate the rich symbolism and allegory here, but that background knowledge is not necessary to enjoy the story.

Trixie Stone is 14-year-old high school freshman who is devastated when her hocky player boyfriend, Jason, breaks up with her. To get him back, she decides to try to make him jealous by flirting with other guys at a party. She gets drunk and plays some gross party games that I hope my students aren't stupid enough to play. She ends up accusing Jason of raping her, which he denies.

Trixie's parents have to deal not only with her trauma and their guilt at not being able to protect her, but also with the fallout from their own transgressions. Her mother, a college professor, has an affair with a student and her father is forced to come to terms with his unhappy and self-destructive childhood.

This is not one of my favorite Picoult novels, although it did have a great deal of promise. If the novel had focused more on Trixie and her situation and less on her parents, I would have found it much more powerful. There is much to think about and discuss here.


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Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. She's also the light of her father, Daniel's life -- a straight-A student; a pretty, popular freshman in high school; a girl who's always seen her father as a hero. That is, until her world is turned upside down with a single act of violence. Suddenly everything Trixie has believed about her family -- and herself -- seems to be a lie. Could the boyfriend who once made Trixie wild with happiness have been the one to end her childhood forever? She says that he is, and that is all it takes to make Daniel, a seemingly mild-mannered comic book artist with a secret tumultuous past he has hidden even from his family, venture to hell and back to protect his daughter.

With The Tenth Circle, Jodi Picoult offers her most powerful chronicle yet as she explores the unbreakable bond between parent and child, and questions whether you can reinvent yourself in the course of a lifetime -- or if your mistakes are carried forever.


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