Nineteen Minutes

by Jodi Picoult

Sterling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens - until a student enters the local high school with an arsenal of guns and starts shooting, changing the lives of everyone inside and out. The daughter of the judge sitting on the case is the state's best witness - but she can't remember what happened in front of her own eyes. Or can she?

• ISBN10: 0340935790
• ISBN13: 9780340935798
• Publish Date: 3 April 2008 (first published 1 March 2007)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 21 August 2013
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Imprint: Hodder Paperback
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 608
• Language: English

Reviews

[moraa]

An okay book but I had kinda hoped for more. It didn't really end the way I wanted it to.

[mitabird]

3.5 stars

[ibeforem]

This was a completely different read for me than it would have been before April 16, 2007, since I live in a community that has experienced one of these tragedies. I was really struck by some of the similarities between what happens in the book and what happened at Virginia Tech, from the teacher that loses his life protecting his students to the memorial that is put up for the shooter by unknown persons and then removed (though the shooter in the book isn’t dead). Everyone knows that Picoult always has a twist at the end, so I wasn’t surprised by the twist in this one. This was a hard read (for me), but it was quite good.

[Whitney @ First Impressions Reviews]

Amazing read and became engrossed in this in well, nineteen minutes. I felt it had a surprise ending about what truly happened during those life changing minutes. Can your own child become a mystery to you? What does it mean to be different in our society? Is it ever okay for a victim to strike back? And who — if anyone — has the right to judge someone else? Jodi Picoult answers all this questions brilliantly, and is a must read.