![]() ![]() To become part of a family, he reinvented himself, channeling his rage onto the page and burying his past completely.until now. He learned to fight back: stealing, drinking, robbing, and cheating his way out of the Alaskan bush. But years ago, he was completely different: growing up as the only white boy in an Eskimo village, he was teased mercilessly for the color of his skin. Until, that is, her world is turned upside down with a single act of violence.and suddenly everything Trixie has believed about her family - and herself - seems to be a lie.įor fifteen years, Daniel Stone has been an even-tempered, mild-mannered man: a stay-at-home dad to Trixie and a husband who has put his own career as a comic book artist behind that of his wife, Laura, who teaches Dante's Inferno at a local college. She's also the light of her father's life - a straight-A student a freshman in high school who is pretty and popular a girl who's always looked up to Daniel Stone as a hero. Trixie Stone is fourteen years old and in love for the first time. Jodi Picoult, the New York Times bestselling author of Vanishing Acts, offers her most powerful chronicle yet of an American family with a story that probes the unbreakable bond between parent and child - and the dangerous repercussions of trying to play the hero. ![]()
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