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Title Statement | A spark of light: a novel / Jodi Picoult. |
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Author | Picoult, Jodi, 1966- |
Publication | Toronto: Random House Canada,2018. |
Extent of Item | 369 pages |
ISBN | 0345813413 9780345813411 |
Other Number | 3432515 |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary | At Mississippi's sole remaining women's reproductive services clinic, a gunman bursts in and takes its patients and staff hostage. The stories that brought these individuals to the clinic vary, from a woman awaiting cancer screening results to a protestor hoping to catch the clinic in a scandal that could be used in a pro-life campaign. Then there is the police hostage negotiator, whose daughter is also trapped inside the facility, and the gunman himself, who has a vendetta to carry out. Meanwhile, across the state, a seventeen-year-old woman lands in the hospital after an attempt to self-terminate her pregnancy and is subsequently charged by the pro-life DA for the murder of her unborn child. They, too, are connected to the events unfolding in the clinic. As the book moves backward in time, each chapter set one hour earlier than the last, we learn how all these people and their stories are unwittingly connected--and that none of these characters' reasons for being where they are at this fateful place and time are exactly what it appears at first glance."-- Provided by publisher. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Hostages--Fiction |
Hostage negotiations--Fiction | |
Fathers and daughters--Fiction | |
Women's health services--Fiction | |
Abortion--Fiction--Moral and ethical aspects | |
Vendetta--Fiction | |
By Location | Mississippi--Fiction |
By Genre | Suspense fiction |