![]() ![]() Their only child is Trixie, 14 years old and struggling with adolescent tribulations such as sexuality, separation from her parents, and peer pressure. She is having an affair with one of her students. ![]() Laura, Daniel's wife, is a college professor who specializes in Dante, from which comes the book's title and overarching themes of hell and damnation. The book actually includes comic book pages at the end of each chapter, which demonstrate Daniel's working out of his inner demons, and it reads like a comic strip as the action moves quickly back and forth through episodic bits of dialogue connecting the myriad strands of the plot. ![]() As if that's not enough, Picoult does all she can to metaphorically tie these story elements together, but the result is more like a bad puppet show where you can see the strings as well as the hands of the puppeteer.ĭaniel Stone-a father and a cartoonist by trade-grew up as an outcast, the sole white child in an Eskimo village to which he has never returned. It is a story of transmutations: from adolescent to adult, from man to superhero, and from self-deceit to self awareness. ![]() The Tenth Circle has a little something for everyone: date rape, suicide, Dante, comic book superheroes, homicide, promiscuous sexual games by 14-year-olds, infidelity by mothers, assault by fathers, and dead childhood friends. An awful lot goes on in this 13th novel by best-selling author Jodi Picoult. ![]()
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