It takes a look at areas of society where people are not educated enough and the devastating consequences that has. The whole book is completely unflinching in how rape is never the victim's fault, which is how it should be. The tone in some parts of this book is angry and sarcastic, which I think suited it, because why wouldn't you be.

It was disheartening to read some of the people in positions of power in America express thoughts about individual cases or just 'how things work' in general. The book spends a lot of time basically explaining what rape is, which you'd think would be pretty darn obvious, but to a lot of people, apparently it isn't. In this searingly honest novel, Jodi Picoult gracefully explores the lengths to which we will go in order to keep the past from dictating the future.This book obviously deals with a difficult topic to read about, so I can't really say I enjoyed this book, but it was very informative, even if most of it were not news to me. With the integrity of the closest friend she's ever had clouded, Sage begins to question the assumptions and expectations she's made about her life and her family. If she says yes, she faces not only moral repercussions, but potentially legal ones as well. Everything changes on the day that Josef confesses a long-buried and shame-ful secret and asks Sage for an extraordinary favor. Despite their differences, they see in each other the hidden scars that others can't. When Josef Weber, an elderly man in Sage's grief support group, begins stopping by the bakery, they strike up an unlikely friendship.

She works through the night, preparing the day's breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her mother's death.

One day he asks Sage for a favor: to kill him.īook Synopsis An astonishing novel about redemption and forgiveness from the 'amazingly talented writer' ( HuffPost) and #1 New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult. Sage Singer becomes friends with an old man who's particularly beloved in her community. About the Book An astonishing novel about redemption and forgiveness from #1 'New York Times'-bestselling author Picoult.

Asking for It by Kate Harding