Título: A Spark of Light
Autor: Jodi Picoult
Sinopse: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis.
"Picoult at her fearless best . . . Timely, balanced and certain to inspire debate."--The Washington Post
The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center--a women's reproductive health services clinic--its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage.
After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages he glances at it and, to his horror, finds out that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic.
But Wren is not alone. She will share the next and tensest few hours of her young life with a cast of unforgettable characters: A nurse who calms her own panic in order to save the life of a wounded woman. A doctor who does his work not in spite of his faith but because of it, and who will find that faith tested as never before. A pro-life protester, disguised as a patient, who now stands in the crosshairs of the same rage she herself has felt. A young woman who has come to terminate her pregnancy. And the disturbed individual himself, vowing to be heard.
Told in a daring and enthralling narrative structure that counts backward through the hours of the standoff, this is a story that traces its way back to what brought each of these very different individuals to the same place on this fateful day.
One of the most fearless writers of our time, Jodi Picoult tackles a complicated issue in this gripping and nuanced novel. How do we balance the rights of pregnant women with the rights of the unborn they carry? What does it mean to be a good parent? A Spark of Light will inspire debate, conversation . . . and, hopefully, understanding.
Look in the back of the book for reader's discussion questions and a conversation with Jodi Picoult.
Praise for A Spark of Light
"This is Jodi Picoult at her best: tackling an emotional hot-button issue and putting a human face on it."--People
"Told backward and hour by hour, Jodi Picoult's compelling narrative deftly explores controversial social issues."--Us Weekly
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “A Spark of Light”, de Jodi Picoult, publicado pela editora Thorndike Pr, em 2020 e com 569 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Thorndike Pr
Páginas: 569
Ano: 2020-10-07
Edição: Large type / Large print
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1432857096
ISBN13: 9781432857097
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Thorndike Pr oferecem uma experiência de leitura marcada por narrativas que transitam entre o suspense, o drama pessoal e a busca por identidade, muitas vezes ambientadas em contextos urbanos ou pequenos centros com conflitos humanos intensos. O catálogo revela uma predileção por histórias que exploram relações complexas, dilemas morais e mistérios que se desenrolam com ritmo que pode variar do tenso ao contemplativo. Há obras que privilegiam o desenvolvimento emocional de personagens femininas em situações desafiadoras, enquanto outras se dedicam a tramas policiais ou de investigação, com foco em crimes e suas consequências. O tom geral oscila entre o realista e o dramático, com frequentes inserções de elementos de mistério e suspense.
