Nineteen Minutes
Atria/Emily Bestler Books · Paperback · February 5, 2008
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.
- Themes
- School shooting aftermath, Social difference and judgment, Fractured friendships and families
- Genres
- Psychological Fiction, Psychological Thrillers, Domestic Thrillers
- Published
- Atria/Emily Bestler Books, February 5, 2008
Who it’s for
- Readers interested in a school shooting's aftermath and the ensuing trial
- Readers drawn to stories of social judgment and fractured friendships and families
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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.
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Josie Cormier, 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.
Where it sits
| Psychological Fiction | 40% |
|---|---|
| Psychological Thrillers | 32% |
| Domestic Thrillers | 30% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Literary Fiction
- Women's Fiction
- Family Life
- Authors
- Jodi Picoult
- Publisher
- Atria/Emily Bestler Books
- Published
- February 5, 2008
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- School shooting aftermath · Social difference and judgment · Fractured friendships and families
- Reading lane
- Literary Fiction