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The Tenth Circle - Jodi PicoultVanishing Act and My Sister's Keeper Author's New Graphic Novel
Jodi Picoult's 13th novel combines traditional fiction with graphics for an interesting read about character Trixie Stone's complicated teen life.
The Tenth Circle is a novel that explores the parent-child bond and all that it embraces. The main character of the novel, Trixie Stone, is the light of her father Daniel’s life – he’s a comic-book artist who works at home; she’s a pretty, popular, straight-A student. But when the high-school freshman falls in love for the first time with Jason Underhill, star of the school hockey team, things begin to unravel. After he breaks up with her, Trixie goes to a party at her friend’s house and attempts to win him back. After a few drinks, she does encounter Jason, and soon thereafter, she is accusing him of rape. Picoult skillfully portrays the highs and lows of adolescence – after the incident, Trixie and her best friend are suddenly estranged; Trixie must face her high-school classmates, most of whom take upperclassman Jason's side and not hers. In essence, this novel is about a small-town Maine high-school girl struggling to fit in. Trixie is squirming away from the close relationship she and her father once enjoyed and is trying to grow up too fast. As she does, her family life falls apart as well – her mild-mannered father suddenly succumbs to a rage that had been boiling inside of him since his days of growing up as the only white boy in a small Alaskan village. Her mother, meanwhile, distances herself from them both by having an affair with a grad student in one of the college classes she teaches. Trixie is left to struggle with her own perceptions of Picoult does a wonderful job of making the reader feel sympathy for both Trixie and Jason. Picoult readers will be surprised to find that The Tenth Circle combines traditional fiction with graphic novel qualities – scenes are drawn out in comic-book form by illustrator Dustin Weaver. The book is Jodi Picoult’s thirteenth novel. Her fourteenth, Nineteen Minutes, was released on March 6, 2007. For her next project, Picoult was asked by DC Comics to write five issues of the Wonder Woman comic book series. Her first issue is scheduled to hit newsstands on March 28, 2007. For more information about author Jodi Picoult, including a podcast on her research for The Tenth Circle and upcoming tour dates, visit her website. Picoult, Jodi The Tenth Circle New York, Simon and Schuster, March 7, 2006
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