Picoult sees humans at their best, while understanding them at their most fragile. “ A Spark Of Light is a book written with warmth and urgency. “This is Jodi Picoult at her best: tackling an emotional hot-button issue and putting a human face on it.” As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages he glances at it and, to his horror, finds out that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage.Īfter rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center-a women’s reproductive health services clinic -its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. A powerful and provocative novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis.
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