Second Glance

Jodi Picoult

Simon and Schuster, 2003 - Fiction - 720 pages

""Sometimes I wonder....Can a ghost find you, if she wants to?""

An intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal, Second Glance begins in current-day Vermont, where an old man puts a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from the local Abenaki Indian tribe, who insist it's a burial ground. When odd, supernatural events plague the town of Comtosook, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents that there's nothing spiritual about the property.

Enter Ross Wakeman, a suicidal drifter who has put himself in mortal danger time and again. He's driven his car off a bridge into a lake. He's been mugged in New York City and struck by lightning in a calm country field. Yet despite his best efforts, life clings to him and pulls him ever deeper into the empty existence he cannot bear since his fiancee's death in a car crash eight years ago. Ross now lives only for the moment he might once again encounter the woman he loves. But in Comtosook, the only discovery Ross can lay claim to is that of Lia Beaumont, a skittish, mysterious woman who, like Ross, is on a search for something beyond the boundary separating life and death. Thus begins Jodi Picoult's enthralling and ultimately astonishing story of love, fate, and a crime of passion.

Hailed by critics as a "master" storyteller (Washington Post), Picoult once again "pushes herself, and consequently the reader, to think about the unthinkable" "(Denver Post). Second Glance," her eeriest and most engrossing work yet, delves into a virtually unknown chapter of American history -- Vermont's eugenics project of the 1920s and 30s -- to provide a compelling study of the things that comeback to haunt us -- literally and figuratively. Do we love across time, or in spite of it?

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Review: Second Glance

User Review  - Latham - Goodreads

Second Glance by Jodi Picoult is intense, intresting and absolutely phenomonal. It makes you think about your beliefs and seeing is not always what it seems. A plot of land is sold in Comtoosok ...

Review: Second Glance

User Review - Goodreads

As previously stated, the thing I love about Jodi Picoult's books are the ethical dilemmas. In this book the issue is one that I debate internally all the time: eugenics. It seems dangerous to have an ...

Contents

• Section 1: 3
• Section 2: 38
• Section 3: 85
• Section 4: 168
• Section 5: 221
• Section 6: 271
• Section 7: 321
• Section 8: 367
• Section 9: 445
• Section 10: 465
• Section 11: 511
• Section 12: 557
• Section 13: 627
• Section 14: 701
• Section 15: 705
• Section 16: 709

About the author

Jodi Picoult was born in Nesconset, New York on May 19, 1966. She received a degree in creative writing from Princeton University in 1987 and a master's degree in education from Harvard University. She published two short stories in Seventeen magazine while still in college. Immediately after graduation, she landed a variety of jobs, ranging from editing textbooks to teaching eighth-grade English. Her first book, Songs of the Humpback Whale, was published in 1992. Her other works include Picture Perfect, Mercy, The Pact, Salem Falls, The Tenth Circle, Nineteen Minutes, Change of Heart, Handle with Care, House Rules, Sing You Home, and Lone Wolf. My Sister's Keeper was made into a movie starring Cameron Diaz. She received the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. She also wrote five issues of the Wonder Woman comic book series for DC Comics. Her title Between the Lines made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Second Glance; PICOULT, JODI
• Author: Jodi Picoult
• Edition: large print
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster, 2003
• ISBN: 0743462661, 9780743462662
• Length: 720 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General