Here is a guest post from Lit Pet
Boww….Bow…wooww….
When
I came out of the circus show, it was six in the evening and everyone was
turning their butts opposite their home. All faces toward home, and I, the lone
dog, skidded and wobbled around their massive treading on the flat ground,
outside the circus tent. I might have managed to move a few feet through the
crowd, when the sound of some quality came to my ears. My ears stood up and
like a dart missile, pointed at the location where the sound was coming from. Boww….wooww…At
first, I was not sure, if it was the right place to look for. Then, a beetle
was a beetle, crunchy and delicious. The sound I heard was almost like that of
a beetle, but muffled by something.
Let’s
see. Boowww….wooww…
However,
I could not find anything there. My nostrils failed me. Suddenly, I realized
the possibility of digging the ground. I started scratching first and then, as
the people slowly dispersed, digging with much ardent effort. A hollow sound
came, first. Then it became more solid, and as the soil was moved, the surface
of something solid, but not natural, came up. I sniffed it. It smelled
metallic. When I took it out, it was a radio. It made a strange sound.
Once
I reached the same old telephone booth, I skipped inside the darkness behind
it, and decided to spend the night there. What about a song? I looked for a
station on the frequency marker, but there was none. I tuned the thing, turning
the knob, anyway. Boowww….wooww… This came out first.
Jodi
Picoult, the author of the bestselling novel, Lone Wolf, has a new book for us this year. Titled, The Storyteller, the novel tells us the
story of “Sage Singer, [who] befriends an old man who's particularly beloved in
her community. Josef Weber is everyone's favorite retired teacher and Little
League coach and they strike up a friendship at the bakery where Sage works.
One day he asks Sage for a favor: to kill him. Shocked, Sage refuses…and then
he confesses his darkest secret - he deserves to die, because he was a Nazi SS
guard. Complicating the matter? Sage's grandmother is a Holocaust survivor.
What do you do when evil lives next door?” (Courtesy: Jodipicoult.com)
Jodi
is 46, and she has written 21 books, all of them are fiction. She has
co-written a YA novel with her daughter, Samantha van Lee, titled, Between the Lines (2012). She maintains
a very impressive website, http://jodipicoult.com/index.html.
The Storyteller is already in NY Times bestselling list.
Read an excerpt here: http://jodipicoult.com/the-storyteller.html#excerpt
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