Ok its another golden oldie and one of my favorite authors
Jodi picoult.
one of my favorite all-time authors . The title is picture
perfect.
Jodi often describes
human interrelationships involving difficult moral or societal choices. Like
any good mystery they are usually resolved at the end. and most of the events in the this story
actually reflected the headlines recently practically word for word. It was all there
and I found that amazing to say the least. The book was written some years ago.
The headlines are current In that they
focused around a famous celebrity husband who may have been physically abusing
a less famous Woman He charged the woman with slander and his reputation. According
to some reports woman didn’t fit the image of a helpless woman and he the
celebrity star was very popular he won a
slander lawsuit apparently based on his popularity on television. Jodi’s book
was published in its paperback form which in 1995. Her story was centered around a super
famous handsome movie star who abused his wife Cassie who he loved beyond all
boundaries.
Cassie the protagonist is a lower ranking teacher in the
graduate school at UCLA. As the story begins she awakens in a Los Angeles
graveyard her hair crusted with blood and suffering from amnesia. A Sioux
Indian policeman from a reservation in the Black Hills of South Dakota has fled
that reservation and obtained a job as a policeman in the Los Angeles. William
Flying Horse, a new to the city and about to start a job with the LAPD, finds
her and takes her in. Days later, when her husband comes to claim her at the
police station, no one is more stunned than Cassie Barrett to learn that not
only is she a renowned anthropologist, but she is married to Hollywood’s leading
man, Alex Rivers.
Perhaps it might all seem like one of those Harlequin books
with a Studly looking man and scantily
covered women on the cover men on the cover and women but it’s not both Cassie
and Alex had very traumatic childhood’s
with flawed parents and this leads to difficulties for both of them. When she makes a mistake he
loses his temper and beats her and she loves him as he does her and doesn’t
know how to handle it. Like any good mystery writer write does the author draws
you into the plot. It all seems like the perfect marriage each one has their
good points. Cassie seems to have it all: a romantic Bel-Air mansion, a husband
nominated for a long list of Academy Awards, and a celebrated career of her
own. It’s the picture of a perfect marriage. But as Cassie regains her memory
and settles back into her glamorous life, after
recovering most of her memory she
learned some frightening things. A
frightening pattern of hurt, denial, and broken promises. Torn between fear and
love. Cassie wrestles with the he loves her he he loves her not, but he really
does love her but over the top. Really does he loves her not she loves him too
much and I couldn’t wait to see how this low worked out at and ultimate
questions: How can she leave? Then again, how can she stay? I don’t usually do
this but I stayed up till three in the morning to see how this mess turned
out. Alex with
baby whose life was threatened
when she was pregnant beat her again. Cassie
fled to finally but feared that her husband would with all his money would be
able to find her. She finds a safe place in South Dakota the Indian reservation
of the Sioux nation where an Indian massacre took place in my lifetime’and the
story continues from there. Picture-perfect Some of you may remember being a
history teacher I prefer straight chronology in stories. Picture-perfect jumps
around a bit but there are not a ton of characters and the call always makes
them stand out and are memorable. It’s perhaps one of America’s best mystery
writers best novels and it would be worth your time to go to your library and
see if they still have it some years after it was published.
