I'm now reading another Jodi Picoult book. This one is about a family trying to deal with the crisis of their daughter being raped. In conjuction with that, the wife has recently ended an affair and so they are trying to sort through it. (Sounds quite uplifiting, huh?) It's all about the powerlessness that we all feel as shit arises in our lives. The book has many references to Dante's "Inferno", specifically, the levels of hell (the wife/mother teaches it at the local college and the father is writing/illustrating a comic loosely based on it). It's good so far. I'll let you know how it turns out.
Update: So, I've finished The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult and although it was good, it was not her best and it was very predictable. I also felt that it didn't reflect well on women who are victims of date rape and sort of followed the "same-old same-old" crap where the woman is often blamed for such a situation.
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