The morning started like every other day at the Center. The Center's employees show up like they do every other day, as do the protesters outside. The patients show up, too. Olive shows up to have her test results explained to her. Lorraine shows up in an undercover role, hoping to catch the clinic in a mistake. Joy shows up to have an abortion. And fifteen-year-old Wren is there with her aunt looking to get birth control for the first time. Everything is normal until a man walks into the clinic and starts shooting. He is desperate to get revenge for his aborted grandbaby. What unfolds is a day-long stand-off with the local hostage negotiator, who also happens to be Wren's father. He is desperate to keep the situation from escalating once he realizes his daughter and his sister are in there with the gunman. He doesn't know why they were in there, he just wants to keep his baby safe. Before the end of the day, people will die, but who will die and who will survive the gunman's wrath?
A Spark of Light is going to be the talk of every book club. At the center of the book is fifteen-year-old Wren, her father Hugh, and Wren's aunt Bex. Unlike most books by the author, this one does not have the same formula where each chapter is clearly from the viewpoint of a specific character. Instead, the only clear timeline is the hours and minutes that pass in one horrific day. Make no mistake about it, A Spark of Light is about abortion and takes place in an abortion clinic. As she is known today, the author very carefully examines all aspects of a controversial topic. In the afterwords, she even states that she watched three abortions. The book very explicitly describes an abortion. It is a very tough thing to read no matter what side of this issue you come down on. The book ended in a way that reminds you that not every book has a happy ending, but sometimes they have an okay ending.
Bottom Line - A Spark of Light is a book about a topic that has been at the center of heated conversations for decades. Jodi Picoult has a reputation for her writing thought-provoking novels about the topics that everybody is talking about, her new book is no different.
Details:
- A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
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- Pages: 384
- Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
- Publication Date: 10/2/18
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