""Sometimes I wonder....Can a ghost find you, if she wants to?""
An intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal,
Second Glance begins in current-day Vermont, where an old man puts
a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from
the local Abenaki Indian tribe, who insist it's a burial ground.
When odd, supernatural events plague the town of Comtosook, a ghost
hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents
that there's nothing spiritual about the property.
Enter Ross Wakeman, a suicidal drifter who has put himself in
mortal danger time and again. He's driven his car off a bridge into
a lake. He's been mugged in New York City and struck by lightning
in a calm country field. Yet despite his best efforts, life clings
to him and pulls him ever deeper into the empty existence he cannot
bear since his fianc - e's death in a car crash eight years ago.
Ross now lives only for the moment he might once again encounter
the woman he loves. But in Comtosook, the only discovery Ross can
lay claim to is that of Lia Beaumont, a skittish, mysterious woman
who, like Ross, is on a search for something beyond the boundary
separating life and death. Thus begins Jodi Picoult's enthralling
and ultimately astonishing story of love, fate, and a crime of
passion.
Hailed by critics as a "master" storyteller (Washington Post),
Picoult once again "pushes herself, and consequently the reader, to
think about the unthinkable" "(Denver Post). Second Glance, " her
eeriest and most engrossing work yet, delves into a virtually
unknown chapter of American history -- Vermont's eugenics project
of the 1920s and 30s -- to provide a compelling study of the things
that come back to haunt us -- literally and figuratively. Do we
love across time, or in spite of it?
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