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The Storyteller

by Jodi Picoult

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Becoming friends with Josef Weber, an old man who is particularly loved in her community, Sage Singer is shocked when one day he asks her to kill him and reveals why he deserves to die, causing her to question her beliefs.
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  BooksInMirror | Feb 19, 2024 |
DNF @ 25% ( )
  filemanager | Nov 29, 2023 |
Absolutely LOVED this book! Haunting is a good way to describe it, with enough humor to keep you from feeling totally depressed. My absolute favorite book of hers so far. ( )
  JillHannah | Nov 20, 2023 |
Best Picoult book I’ve read!! Beginning was slow for me but 2nd half I could not put down!!! ( )
  Asauer72 | Jul 3, 2023 |
The Storyteller is a perfectly titled book. This beautifully written book actually weaves many stories. I wasn’t sure what I was in for when I met Sage at a grief group. She’s an introverted baker who meets Joseph, an elderly widowed man. I quickly became engrossed when the heart of the book tells Sage’s grandmother’s story, an Auschwitz survivor. Wow! What a story. There’s so much more that follows. This became quite an emotionally powerful read. It will definitely stay with me for a long time. ( )
  NatalieRiley | Jun 17, 2023 |
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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
When I reach the age of Twenty I will explore this world of plenty In a motorized bird myself I will sit And soar into space Oh! so brightly lit I will float, I will fly to the world so lovely so far, I will float, I will fly above rivers and sea The cloud is my sister, the wind a brother to me. --from "A Dream" by Avraham (Abramek) Koplowicz b. 1930. He was a child of the Lodz ghetto. He was taken from the ghetto on the final transport to Auschwitz-Birknau in 1944 and was murdered there at age fourteen. This poem has been translated from the original Polish by Ida Meretyk-Spinka, 2012
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For my mother, Jane Picoult, because you taught me there is nothing more important than family. And because after twenty years, its your turn again.
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My father trusted me with the details of his death.
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There are all sorts of losses people suffer—from the small to the large. You can lose your car keys, your glasses, your virginity. You can lose your head, you can lose your heart, you can lose your mind. You can relinquish your home to move into assisted living, or have a child move overseas, or see a spouse vanish into dementia. Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.
That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?
But my mother also would have been the first to tell me that good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.
I cannot justify why I've picked Josef, a virtual stranger, to reveal myself to. Maybe because loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.
And me: I find myself talking about things that I have long packed up, like a spinster's hope chest.
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Becoming friends with Josef Weber, an old man who is particularly loved in her community, Sage Singer is shocked when one day he asks her to kill him and reveals why he deserves to die, causing her to question her beliefs.

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Sage Singer, a baker is asked by Josef Weber to make a moral choice. It will make her draw the line between punishment and justice, forgiveness and mercy.
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