Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult
Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult
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Vanishing Acts

Author: Jodi Picoult

Narrator: Jim Jenner, Robert Ramierez, Sharon Washington, Jonathan Davis, Julia Gibson

Unabridged: 16 hr 17 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/29/2016


Synopsis

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of modern classics such as My Sister’s Keeper and Small Great Things weaves a “richly textured and engaging” (The Boston Globe) tale that explores what happens when a young woman’s past—a past she didn’t even know she had—catches up to her just in time to threaten her future.

How do you recover the past when it was never yours to lose?

Delia Hopkins has led a charmed life. Raised in rural New Hampshire by her beloved father, she now has a young daughter, a handsome fiancé, and her own search-and-rescue bloodhound, which she uses to find missing persons. But as Delia plans her wedding, she is plagued by flashbacks of a life she can’t recall…until a policeman knocks on her door, revealing a secret about herself that irrevocably changes her life.

With Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult explores how life might not always turn out the way we imagined; how the people we love and trust can suddenly change before our very eyes; how vanished memories can evolve into threat. Featuring characters that “resonate with authenticity” (People), Vanishing Acts masterfully explores a serious topic with understanding, insight, and compassion.

About Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult is an American novelist born in Nesconset, Long Island, New York. She has had a very diversified career with her education in writing being received at Princeton University. She had a variety of jobs ranging from writing short stories when still in college for Seventeen magazine and editing text books, to becoming the writer of the DC Comics Wonder Woman (Vol. 3), issue #6 in March 2007 and #10 in June of 2007.

Picoult’s first novel, Nineteen Minutes, about a school shooting in a small town became #1 on the NY Times Bestseller List. Then her second novel also debuted #1, entitled Change of the Heart. In 2009 her novel, My Sister’s Keeper was adapted to a featured film.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Baba

About to be married to the father of her child, Delia begins to have doubts about her past which are then confirmed after the visitation of a policeman. Her entire past is a lie! Today's dilemma drama? What if you had an amazing parent that gave you the perfect upbringing, only to find out that to d......more

I have sort of a love-hate relationship with Jodi Picoult books. I really enjoyed Plain Truth and My Sister's Keeper, but there are definitely things about her writing that irritate me. It seems they were more apparent in this one. I personally think metaphors would be more effective (and part of a......more

I thought this book was absolutely fantastic however there were some parts that I found really hard to get through. Picoult in her usual way brings her characters to life and I feel her characters more than I feel most and I felt like that 60 year old adapting to life behind bars, it was a difficult......more

Goodreads review by Michele

"The Only Way Someone Can Leave You Is If You Let Them." Vanishing Acts is yet another well told tale by Jodi Picoult, who is a master at character development. Once again telling the story through first person accounts of the main characters, she weaves together a family drama centered on a "kidnap......more