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Ballantine Books
October 2018
On Sale: October 2, 2018
384 pages
ISBN: 0345544986
EAN: 9780345544988
Kindle: B07B73H2BX
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Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis.

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 cross hairs 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.

Jodi Picoult—one of the most fearless writers of our time—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.