Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister’s Keeper and Small Great Things pens her most riveting book yet, with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy. Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens–until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the … daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state’s best witness, but she can’t remember what happened before her very own eyes–or can she? As the trial progresses, fault lines between the high school and the adult community begin to show–destroying the closest of friendships and families. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else, and whether anyone is ever really who they seem to be.
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It took me awhile to get through this book. Not because it was bad, or boring or poorly written…simply because it was that emotional. I had to keep setting it aside and read something lighter and fluffier and then come back to it. Be prepared to go through a very trying and emotional time when you read this book.
Told in several points of …
Jodi Picoult has a way of getting into our psyche and expressing just what is there. She does it again with this novel. Being a teacher, it was sometimes hard to read, but well worth the effort.
A great book as to why we should not bully and why we should teach your kids not to bully.
I believe every teacher should read this. No doubt the school shooter was wrong, but the reader is brought into his thoughts and feelings as well as those if those who bullied him.
This book definitely kept me up all night reading.
I love how Picoult makes me consider both sides of controversial issues such as this one. A very timely read.
Nineteen Minutes was hauntingly realistic. With school shootings very prevalent in our current world, it has definitely hit home. Jodi Piccoult wrote a realistic novel that made a lasting impact. The characters were cleverly entwined and believable and I cried for a long time while reading this fast paced novel.
Enjoyable as well as uncomfortable to think about.
This was based on a real life school shooting. It is very interesting and tragic too. Highly recommended.
I thought this story was one of Picoult’s more engaging ones — with twists until the very end. A local judge is torn when she has to preside over a case where a boy that goes to her daughter’s high school goes on a killing rampage — and the boy is the son of her best friend. We see points of view from the judge, her daughter, who once was …
Exceptional book about a tragic event told from the perspective of the perpetrator. Very very well written , as are most all her books
Truly a haunting read