Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years’ experience. In her highly acclaimed 2016 novel, SMALL GREAT THINGS, Jodi tackles the profoundly challenging yet essential concerns of our time: prejudice, race, and justice.
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She simply explores and promotes the link between intelligence and empathy – and when both qualities are in desperately short supply, I think she’s a writer the world needs to be reading right now.” A Spark Of Light is about love and pain, but Picoult never tells you how to feel. She makes the political personal, and I believe her novel has the power to alter the landscape at a time when women’s reproductive rights are constantly under threat.There’s a lyricism to Picoult’s language, and she sketches her characters vividly and immediately, using the stories they tell as a way of illuminating their creativity and sensitivity. We know what’s going to happen, and instead of breathlessly leading us to an ending, Picoult forces us to focus on the flesh and feelings of everyone who populates the world she has drawn. The story is told in real time, but backwards, a startlingly effective framing device as its texture and tone take on a greater weight than the events it is comprised of.In a lesser writer’s hands, A Spark Of Light could simply be a pacy page turner, but Picoult’s timing is a Brechtian masterstroke. Picoult sees humans at their best, while understanding them at their most fragile. “ A Spark Of Light is a book written with warmth and urgency. “This is Jodi Picoult at her best: tackling an emotional hot-button issue and putting a human face on it.” 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. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage.Īfter rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. 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. A powerful and provocative novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis.
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