The Storyteller pulled me in right away with its mix of grief, secrets, and unlikely friendship. Sage, a baker struggling with loneliness and loss, forms a connection with an elderly man who eventually reveals a shocking secret and asks something almost impossible of her. The way Jodi Picoult weaves together the characters, timelines, and stories is beautifully done.
Reading this book in today’s political climate hit differently than it might have years ago. As a child, reading The Diary of Anne Frank, I was horrified by the Holocaust, but with the events in Gaza and stories of people being detained by ICE, this book felt especially timely and unsettling. The way an ordinary German boy is groomed and slowly shaped into a Nazi killer is chilling, and honestly, one of the most disturbing parts of the book.
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