CHANGE
OF HEART Really, how does she do it? Jodi Picoult continues to write compelling, thought-provoking and perfectly crafted novels about ordinary people in extraordinary situations – situations that make readers question long-held beliefs and reject stereotypes. Who would think they could ever sympathize with a mass murderer (read Nineteen Minutes) or question organ donation (read My Sister’s Keeper) or believe that a father’s best intentions were actually a crime (read Vanishing Acts). With each new novel, Picoult forces readers to grapple with the messiness of life and ponder unspeakable what-ifs – and each time her readers spread the word to their friends and come back for more, sending her last three novels to the top of bestseller lists around the world. Her new novel, CHANGE OF HEART takes the reader to Death Row, where an itinerant, uneducated man accused of murdering a young girl and her stepfather awaits execution. But when this man starts quoting obscure gospels and performing miracles nothing is what it seems to be. And when he decides to donate his heart to the sister of the girl he is accused of killing – twelve-year-old Claire who has been on the list for a heart donation for years – he has one last shot at redemption. As questions fly – Is he the Messiah? What really happened the day Claire’s sister was killed? Can we save ourselves, or do we have to rely on someone else to do it? Why do we believe what we do? -- readers are drawn into this brilliantly told story that stuns with a final sentence.
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