Storyteller

Some stories live forever . . . Sage Singer is a baker. She works through the night, preparing the dayâÈçs breads and pastries, trying to escape a reality of loneliness, bad memories, and the shadow of her motherâÈçs death. When Josef Weber, an elderly man in SageâÈçs grief support group, begins stopping by the bakery, they strike up an unlikely friendship. Despite their differences, they see in each other the hidden scars that others canâÈçt. Everything changes on the day that Josef confesses a long-buried and shame­ful secret and asks Sage for an extraordinary favor. If she says yes, she faces not only moral repercussions, but potentially legal ones as well. With the integrity of the closest friend sheâÈçs ever had clouded, Sage begins to question the assumptions and expectations sheâÈçs made about her life and her family. In this searingly honest novel, Jodi Picoult gracefully explores the lengths to which we will go in order to keep the past from dictating the future.