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Estranged from his family while living in Thailand for the past six years, Edward Warren is summoned home to New Hampshire when his father, Luke, a renowned wolf expert, and Edward’s 17-year-old sister, Cara, are critically injured in a car accident. Cara’s wounds are not life-threatening, but Luke has suffered severe brain damage and languishes in a vegetative state doctors say is irreversible. As his father’s legal next-of-kin, it falls to Edward to make the hard choices about life support and organ donation, a nearly impossible responsibility, given that father and son parted on angry terms the night Edward tried to confide to Luke that he was gay. Then Cara becomes a volatile advocate for her father’s right-to-life, taking impulsive steps to wrest control away from Edward. Though the author’s loyal “Pi-cult” following will drive demand, this latest offering lacks the emotional nuance that may have won Picoult her fans. Worthy discussions about critical end-of-life medical and moral issues are often eclipsed by overwrought teenage melodrama and heavy-handed working of the “lone wolf/Luke Warren” trope. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Best-selling Picoult will conduct a national author tour backed by extensive advertising and publicity for this topical drama by a reliably prolific and avidly popular author. --Carol Haggas
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- Paperback: 438 pages
- Publisher: Emily Bestler Books; 1st edition (October 23, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1439102759
- ISBN-13: 978-1439102756
- Product Dimensions: 1.1 x 5.4 x 8.1 inches
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Epub Lone Wolf
Jodi Picoult, is an author known for her novels dealing with complex and controversial issues, Her 19th novel, Lone Wolf, just released. The story for the most part takes place in Beresford, New Hampshire, and once again, it's a story which packs a punch.
When Cara Warren, age 17, calls her father, Luke to pick her up after being out with friends who have had a bit too much to drink, father and daughter are involved in a serious automobile accident. Where Cara recovers from her injuries after surgery, her father is not so lucky. Luke has suffered a TMI (traumatic brain injury) and has only a 10% chance of recovery. He is being kept alive by life support -- a ventilator and feeding tube.
Luke is divorced from Cara's mom Georgie, and has been estranged from their son Edward for the last six years. Edward, left home at age 18, after an incident involving his father Luke. He left a note for his mother, but never bothered to said goodbye to his father. When Edward receives a frantic call from his mother, Georgie, informing him about his sister and father's accident, Edward takes a 24 hour flight home from Bangkok, Thailand where he has been living and teaching.
With no legal advance directives in place for Luke, the siblings find themselves at odds over whether or not to end their father's life, and a legal battle ensues. To complicate matters, Edward locates a handwritten note of his fathers, giving him the authority to make decisions for him if he were ever unable to make them for himself. Edward was just 15 at the time that both parties signed the note.
I like Jodi Picoult and include some of her books among my favorites. Her last few books have been sentimentally predictable, none more so than LONE WOLF.
Luke Warren and his daughter 17-year-old Cara are in a car accident that leaves him on life support with no chance of regaining consciousness. Brother Edward returns from overseas, having been absent for seven years after a falling out with Luke. Told in the voices of Luke, Cara, Edward, and Georgie, Luke's ex and Cara and Edward's mother. Edward wants to remove life support and donate Luke's organs. Cara wants to keep her father alive, hoping for a miracle.
Cara is one of the least sympathetic characters Picoult has ever written. She's narcissistic, spiteful, sneaky, and immature. While I can understand a teenager wanting her father to recover, this young woman often reads as a caricature. Edward is much more sympathetic and realistic as a 23-year-old man trying to do the right thing for his mom, dad, and sister, but sometimes making matters worse through assumption and lack of communication. I never got the feeling Cara was trying to do the right thing, it was all about Cara.
My favorite part of the book was that Edward was a gay character, but that was just one part of who he was the same as if he had blue eyes or red hair. He didn't have a partner and wasn't dating during the 17 days the book took place. Picoult did a masterful job making him no different than any characters. I never thought of him as a gay character, because he was just a character who happened to be gay.
The sections written in Luke's voice are basically an allegory between wolf relationships in packs and family relationships. Luke has lived with wolves on and off and almost considers himself more wolf than human.