CD Edition
by Jodi Picoult
narrated by Carol Monda
Genre: Modern Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Book Reference: DIR1790
ISBN: 978 1 4074 7877 7
Duration: 13h 15m (approx.) on 11 CDs
Publication Date: April 2008
When Daniel Stone was a child, he was the only white boy in a native Eskimo village where his mother taught, and he was teased mercilessly because he was different. He fought back - stealing, drinking, robbing and cheating his way out of the Alaskan bush - where he honed his artistic talent, fell in love with a girl and got her pregnant.
To become part of a family, he reinvented himself - jettisoning all that anger to become a docile, devoted husband and father. Fifteen years later he is a comic book artist. His wife teaches at a local college; his daughter, Trixie, is the light of his life - and a girl who only knows her father as the even-tempered, mild-mannered man he has been her whole life. That is until she is raped...