This book is about hatred, betrayal, family love, sacrifice.
"Trixie Stone is an imaginative, perceptive 14 year old whose life begins to unravel when Jason Underhill, Bethel High's star hockey player, breaks up with her, leaving a void that can only be filled by the blood spilled during shameful self-mutilations in the girls' bathroom. While Trixie's dad Daniel notices his daughter's recent change in demeanor, he turns a blind eye, just as he does to the obvious affair his wife Laura, a college professor, is barely trying to conceal. When Trixie gets raped at a friend's party, Daniel and Laura are forced to deal not only with the consequences of their daughter's physical and emotional trauma, but with their own transgressions as well. For Daniel, that means reflecting on a childhood spent as the only white kid in a native Alaskan village, where isolation and loneliness turned him into a recluse, only to be born again after falling in love with his wife. Laura, who blames her family's unraveling on her selfish affair, must decide how to reconcile her personal desires with her loved ones' needs. " (www.amazon.com)
Jodi Picoult is a good author who often wrote about issue that would make readers think. What if ... What if your child face the same problem, what would you do? Her writing is so real in a sense that this could actually happen to the child or even your closest person that sleep on the same bed as you could actually betray you. The friend that always stick with you could not believe you or even the victim herself start to deceive herself, the world. The "attacker" could actually be a victim himself.
Read this book and you will understand what I mean.
I give this book 4 out of 5 star
