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Picoult bangs out another ripped-from-the-zeitgeist winner, this time examining a condemned inmate's desire to be an organ donor. Freelance carpenter Shay Bourne was sentenced to death for killing a little girl, Elizabeth Nealon, and her cop stepfather. Eleven years after the murders, Elizabeth's sister, Claire, needs a heart transplant, and Shay volunteers, which complicates the state's execution plans. Meanwhile, death row has been the scene of some odd events since Shay's arrival—an AIDS victim goes into remission, an inmate's pet bird dies and is brought back to life, wine flows from the water faucets. The author brings other compelling elements to an already complex plot line: the priest who serves as Shay's spiritual adviser was on the jury that sentenced him; Shay's ACLU representative, Maggie Bloom, balances her professional moxie with her negative self-image and difficult relationship with her mother. Picoult moves the story along with lively debates about prisoner rights and religion, while plumbing the depths of mother-daughter relationships and examining the literal and metaphorical meanings of having heart. The point-of-view switches are abrupt, but this is a small flaw in an impressive book. 1,000,000-million copy first printing.(Mar.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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"Picoult is a rare writer who delivers book after book, a winning combination of the literary and the commercial." -- Entertainment Weekly
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Compelling Book~,
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This review is from: Change of Heart: A Novel (Hardcover)
Jodi Picoult does not disappoint in her new novel, A Change of Heart. The story centers around an inmate on death row who killed a father and his young daughter. Now, believing in his redemption through donating his heart to the sister of his young victim, the story revolves around his battle to die in a way that allows him to donate his heart and in convincing the mother of both the victim and the girl who needs a heart to accept his heart. I have read all of Jodi Picoult's books. She has a way of writing about a subject that I always think is a black and white topic and turning it into something much more grey - and utterly believable. How could you feel sorry for a death row inmate? How could you care equally about people who are completely at odds with each other? I read this book in a matter of a few days because the story is so compelling. I needed to keep reading it at every opportunity. This book gets my top rating!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Another good one from Jodi Picoult,
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This review is from: Change of Heart (Paperback)
I know that sometimes, Picoult novels can get repetitive but this one is really one of her best. She branches out and writes something that is heartfelt, political and a page-turner. I would recommend this to Picoult fans and non-fans alike.
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Amazing!,
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As always Jodi provides a book that is so difficult to put down and I was sad when it ended because I enjoyed the book so much.
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