I’ve got to admit – I didn’t warm that much to Sage’s character, and I feel the issues surrounding her past were never truly explored. It’s here that the story starts to really get interesting.
Until one day, Josef confesses that he is an ex SS officer, and asks her to help him die. She and Josef both live relatively solitary lives, troubled with ghosts from their past, and so they forge a strange friendship. The one thing she does do once a week without fail is visit a grief group, where she is able to talk about the loss of her mother.Īt the grief group she meets Josef Weber, a retired nonagenarian who has lived an active life within their New Hampshire community as a sports coach at the local school. The combination of guilt over the fact she was driving at the time and the shame of her scars has led her to living a fairly isolated life only really seeing her friends and colleagues at the bakery and her boyfriend, the local funeral director, who happens to be married. This is due to the fact that she has some facial scarring from a car accident she was involved in in which her mother died.
Sage is a 25-year-old baker who works during the night and sleeps during the day a lifestyle she has adopted in order to avoid being seen in public as much as possible. In The Storyteller, Picoult uses her usual tactic of multi-person narrative, to not only provide us with the story from multiple points of view, but with a rich tapestry of tales from other times and other countries. Although never shying away from serious topics, The Storyteller looks at what is surely one of the most vast and daunting subject matter she has covered yet.
Jodi Picoult has a knack for tackling big, controversial issues and winding them into compelling, emotional stories.
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