The Storyteller

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Call Number: Fiction / Picoult, Jodi, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Picoult, Jodi
On Shelf At: Westgate Branch

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Sage Singer becomes friends with an old man who's particularly beloved in her community after they strike up a conversation at the bakery where she works. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little League coach. One day he asks Sage for a favor: to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses, but then he tells her he deserves to die. Once he reveals his secret, Sage wonders if he's right. What do you do when evil lives next door? Can someone who's committed a truly heinous act ever redeem themselves with good behavior? Should you offer forgiveness to someone if you aren't the party who was wronged? And most of all--if Sage even considers his request--is it murder, or justice?

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Not Picoult's Best submitted by mrajraspn08 on August 25, 2013, 9:26am Love Jodi Picoult, but unimpressed with this one. Too much time was spent on the past, and the end was disappointing.

Not impressed submitted by sarai koster-mockeridge on July 19, 2015, 3:12pm Jodi Picoult is usually an engaging storyteller, but this book dragged, and was significantly less eventful then her other works.

Fantastic submitted by silkk on July 10, 2018, 6:34pm The way Picoult tells stories is amazing. You just can't stop reading. I read all 400+ pages of this book in under 24 hours.
While I wasn't a fan of the ending (it felt a little rushed), nor Leo's insistence upon "she doesn't know she's beautiful" (it's just so cliche), I overall really enjoyed this story and the characters. As always, the way Picoult leaves you with a cliffhanger every time she switches narrators makes it impossible to put the book down.

Good, not great submitted by Pooh3238 on July 25, 2018, 11:57am This book wasn't like a lot of her other books. It was a quick read, but wasn't her best.

Not her usual submitted by cldaniels on June 13, 2022, 5:22pm This is WWII story , not like her usual legal/medical dilemmas

Great submitted by ADMartin on June 13, 2023, 8:05pm I’m not a typical reader of historical fiction, but this was great. There were a few different stories and timelines simultaneously being told. Amazing author.

A Grandmother, A Baker, and A Nazi submitted by ekjensen on July 19, 2023, 9:46am Thirty something Sage Singer, a baker, meets 95 year old Josef Webber, at a grief counseling session, becomes his friend, as he confesses and details his alias SS Nazi past to her and asks her for suicide assistance. She simultaneously and finally learns the details of her aging Jewish grandmother Minka’s parallel persecution by Nazis in Poland and with her written draft of a monster horror story. PS [Alert] Josef and Minka pasts are gruesomely described in detail.

Perspectives submitted by sarahkirstencox on July 31, 2023, 7:06pm I love how this story is told from multiple perspectives that weave together. This is the story that hooked me on her writing.