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The Tenth Circle

A Novel

By Jodi Picoult

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| Hardcover | 9780743496704

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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. <Continue

Trixie Stone is fourteen years old and in love for the first time. 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. 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.

For 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. 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. He learned to fight back: stealing, drinking, robbing, and cheating his way out of the Alaskan bush. To become part of a family, he reinvented himself, channeling his rage onto the page and burying his past completely. . . until now. Could the young boy who once made Trixie's face fill with light when he came to the door have been the one to end her childhood forever? She says that he is, and that is all it takes to make Daniel, a man with a history he has hidden even from his family, venture to hell and back in order to protect his daughter.

The Tenth Circle looks at that delicate moment when a child learns that her parents don't know all of the answers and when being a good parent means letting go of your child. It asks whether you can reinvent yourself in the course of a lifetime or if your mistakes are carried forever -- if life is, as in any good comic book, a struggle to control good and evil, or if good and evil control you.

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The Best Reviews: Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle

"exciting thriller" Daniel Stone was the only white child who lived in an Alaskan Eskimo village where because of his race, the boys picked on him until he finally acted out by stealing, vandalizing property, fighting and a host of other petty crimes ... (read full critics)

thebestreviews published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010

THE TENTH CIRCLE

Jodi Picoult --- here's a name almost guaranteed to make booksellers drool. She's an award-winning, bestselling author and a book clubber's dream: each of her twelve novels is meaty, engrossing, and tackles interesting situations or morally complex c ... (read full critics)

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my second book of Jodi Picoult. this book didnt take that long as my sister 's keeper, but what i found in these two books is that they all talk about the parent-child love. In this book, you will see how a father try to protect her daughter; no matter what happened.
As parents always believe ... (continue)

my second book of Jodi Picoult. this book didnt take that long as my sister 's keeper, but what i found in these two books is that they all talk about the parent-child love. In this book, you will see how a father try to protect her daughter; no matter what happened.
As parents always believe their children are the best, even when something had happened, it always not their children's fault. Parents would do something crazy just in order to protect their children. you can see it both in my sister's keeper and this book.
Everyone has a dark side, but people usually choose to hide it in everyday life, but when one day it blows out, no matter what reason is, it would come out to do anything to protect their best love.

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Jas said on Oct 6, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

This is a book that will tug at the parent of any teenage girl. My own daughter is a young teenager and I wonder where my little girl has gone. It is a difficult age stuck between childhood and adulthood. Picoult takes you back to Trixie's childhood where she escaped from her stroller while her f ... (continue)

This is a book that will tug at the parent of any teenage girl. My own daughter is a young teenager and I wonder where my little girl has gone. It is a difficult age stuck between childhood and adulthood. Picoult takes you back to Trixie's childhood where she escaped from her stroller while her father frantically runs around trying to find her. We can all identify with that, it does not take a second. We also gain insight into Daniel's (her father) background and former life. I do not want put spoilers into the review so I will say very little of the storyline. What parent would not go to the end of the earth to protect their child or cover for them. It explores family issues where a family is turned upside down not only by what has happened to Trixie but by her mother's mistake. I found I could empathise with the Stone family and with the detective who at the end of the day was just doing his job. A recommended read.

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Booketta said on Mar 8, 2011 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

This was my least favorite of her novels. I don't know why,but it just did not pull me in like some of her others.

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Jamie Gemuend767 said on Aug 17, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

Jodi did not surprise me in the Tenth Circle as much as the other of her books did. I could guessed who the true murderer was WAY BACK. Which spoiled the fun and twist of the book.
Call me heartless, but I don't have sympathy to the characters. In the first half of the book, I really felt the ... (continue)

Jodi did not surprise me in the Tenth Circle as much as the other of her books did. I could guessed who the true murderer was WAY BACK. Which spoiled the fun and twist of the book.
Call me heartless, but I don't have sympathy to the characters. In the first half of the book, I really felt the sorrow and was sadden by the tragedies that happened to the family. Unfaithful wife, daughter rape case, father who had a tough childhood. But the further I read, the more I think they HAD a choice. Laura had a choice of not having an affair. Trixie had a choice of not buying special-K from Seth. She could have told the truth..... The only victim in the story, I guess is Daniel. You've gotta have respect to a parent like that. He is my favorite character in the book.
Family crisis is Jodi's speciality and no doubt this is a grim subject. Once again Jodi Picoult made us puzzle about moral value, ignorance of parents, and how cruel kids can be.

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Running Jan said on Jul 24, 2008 | Add your feedback

Pretty annoying characters and storyline. I expected much more from this author.

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Deanna Kyre said on Apr 1, 2008 | Add your feedback