Second Glance: A Novel

Second Glance: A Novel
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This breathtaking novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult asks: Do we love across time, or in spite of it?

â‚¬Å“Sometimes I wonder....Can a ghost find you, if she wants to?â‚¬Â

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 itâ‚¬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 thereâ‚¬s nothing spiritual about the property.

Enter Ross Wakeman, a suicidal drifter who has put himself in mortal danger time and again. Heâ‚¬s driven his car off a bridge into a lake. Heâ‚¬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 fiancÂ©eâ‚¬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 Picoultâ‚¬s enthralling and ultimately astonishing story of love, fate, and a crime of passion.

Hailed by critics as a â‚¬Å“masterâ‚¬Â storyteller (The Washington Post), Picoult once again â‚¬Å“pushes herself, and consequently the reader, to think about the unthinkableâ‚¬Â (Denver Post). Second Glance, her eeriest and most engrossing work yet, delves into a virtually unknown chapter of American historyâ‚¬"Vermontâ‚¬s eugenics project of the 1920s and 30sâ‚¬"to provide a compelling study of the things that come back to haunt usâ‚¬"literally and figuratively. Do we love across time, or in spite of it?
Country USA
Brand Washington Square Press
Manufacturer Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9781416583868
ReleaseDate 2008-08-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781416583868

Country	USA
Brand	Washington Square Press
Manufacturer	Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9781416583868
ReleaseDate	2008-08-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781416583868

Second Glance: A Novel

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