Known for expertly blending provocative themes with family conflicts and difficult moral choices, Jodi Picoult keeps her readers riveted with heartfelt yet impeccably researched novels, like the richly suspenseful Second Glance and the poignant and controversial family drama My Sister's Keeper.
There is this Victorian-era tableau of pious Pilgrims at the Thanksgiving dinner table, clasping hands with their Indian brethren, and it wasn’t that at all. These were real people who had their own ambitions, their own fears.
A 14-year-old girl and her parents are plunged into a kind of hell Dante could have envisioned, in the Jodi Picoult novel "The Tenth Circle." The family patriarch, Daniel Stone, is a comic book artist. His wife, Laura, is cheating on him, although she feels guilty about it. And daughter Trixie comes home from a party one night with shocking news.
There is this Victorian-era tableau of pious Pilgrims at the Thanksgiving dinner table, clasping hands with their Indian brethren, and it wasn’t that at all. These were real people who had their own ambitions, their own fears. 
