Rating: Not rated
Tags: Fiction, Contemporary Women, Literary, Sagas, Lang:en
Summary
Throughout her blockbuster career, #1
New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult has seamlessly
blended nuanced characters, riveting plots, and rich prose,
brilliantly creating stories that “not only provoke the
mind but touch the flawed souls in all of us” (The Boston
Globe). Now, in her highly anticipated new novel, she has
delivered her most affecting work yet—a book unlike
anything she’s written before. For more than a
decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her
mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a
tragic accident. Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna
searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the
pages of Alice’s old journals. A scientist who studied
grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among
the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide
a clue to her mother’s whereabouts. Desperate to
find the truth, Jenna enlists two unlikely allies in her quest:
Serenity Jones, a psychic who rose to fame finding missing
persons, only to later doubt her gifts, and Virgil Stanhope,
the jaded private detective who’d originally investigated
Alice’s case along with the strange, possibly linked
death of one of her colleagues. As the three work together to
uncover what happened to Alice, they realize that in asking
hard questions, they’ll have to face even harder answers.
As Jenna’s memories dovetail with the events in
her mother’s journals, the story races to a mesmerizing
finish. A deeply moving, gripping, and intelligent page-turner,
Leaving Time is Jodi Picoult at the height of her powers.Praise
for Jodi Picoult “Picoult writes with unassuming
brilliance.”—Stephen King “It’s
hard to exaggerate how well Picoult
writes.”—Financial Times “Picoult
writes with a fine touch, a sharp eye for detail, and a firm
grasp of the delicacy and complexity of human
relationships.”—The Boston Globe
“Picoult is a master of the craft of
storytelling.”—Associated PressFrom the Hardcover
edition.