![]() The plot is not unique, we have all read stories like this one where a young girl finds herself unexpectedly expecting and is forced into a compromising situation as she tries to navigate her life around a major bump in the road. ![]() In Jodi Picoult’s 7th novel, Plain Truth, published back in 2001, she weaves a tangled web of plot in an unexpected setting. While I enjoy Jodi Picoult’s books, the subject matter of Plain Truth wouldn’t have made me rush out to purchase it but as it was given to me as a gift I was compelled to read it – and I’m glad that I did. I have to say that this is probably not the kind of book I would pick up on my own. And as she unravels a tangled murder case, Ellie also looks deep within - to confront her own fears and desires when a man from her past reenters her life. Delving deep inside the world of those who live “plain,” Ellie must find a way to reach Katie on her terms. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big-city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to defend Katie, two cultures collide - and for the first time in her high-profile career, Ellie faces a system of justice very different from her own. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn’s mother, took the child’s life. ![]() The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. ![]()
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