Second Glance

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Second Glance
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First edition
Author Jodi Picoult
LanguageEnglish
Publisher Atria
Publication date
April 8, 2003
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages432 pp
ISBN 978-0-7434-5450-6
OCLC 51927506

Second Glance (2003) is the tenth novel by the American author Jodi Picoult.

Contents

Plot summary

Second Glance follows the lives of several characters throughout the book. In Picoult's signature writing style, the novel flashes back and forth many decades to piece together the story. The novel is set in the fictional town of Comtosook, Vermont.

The story is about Abenaki territorial land that is planned to be turned into a shopping mall. However, if the Abenaki are able to show that an ancestor was buried on this expanse of land, then the mall cannot, legally, be built on the land.

Ross Wakeman arrives in Comtosook to stay with his sister, Shelby. Ross is the survivor of many varied suicide attempts, which began after his fiancée Aimee was killed in a car accident years ago. Ross became a ghost hunter in the hopes that someday he would encounter Aimee's spirit. Fortunately for Ross, when he arrives in Comtosook, the town begins to experience strange phenomena, as the result of the new plans to build a strip mall on the Abenaki land.

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References

  1. Picoult, J (2003) Second Glance. New York, NY: Atria Books