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 a very unsettling irony in the fact that the Virginia Tech campus shooting tragedy occurred just a few weeks after publication of the newest Jodi Picoult novel "Nineteen Minutes," since the book is a multi-layered story of a boy who takes a gun to school one day and opens fire. But Picoult does not stop with just telling what went wrong with Peter Houghton. This is a whole community's story. [Note: this interview was recorded prior to the Virginia Tech shootings.]
For many years I pictured Puff the way [he] was in the first three TV specials that we did ... But these images are so beautiful!
