Maggie's review
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
Dear Miss Richard,
The book I’m currently reading is called Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult. It’s about an Amish baby that’s found dead in a barn who might have been killed by its own mother, an eighteen-year-old Amish girl named Katie Fisher. Ellie Hathaway ends up becoming Katie’s attorney for the case after she arrives at her aunt’s house for a visit. There’s one huge snag in this case: Katie won’t admit she had the baby. She denies giving birth over and over and OVER! This is just making the case more difficult for Ellie.
This book is quite different from most of the other books I’ve read by Jodi Picoult. It still has to do with some issue in a courtroom, but the fact that katie is Amish adds a lot to it. I’m finding the book a little slow-going, actually, since many of the central characters are Amish. Their rules and restrictions complicate the story, because they don’t normally interact with the English legal system. I really can’t wait for all the courtroo...more
The book I’m currently reading is called Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult. It’s about an Amish baby that’s found dead in a barn who might have been killed by its own mother, an eighteen-year-old Amish girl named Katie Fisher. Ellie Hathaway ends up becoming Katie’s attorney for the case after she arrives at her aunt’s house for a visit. There’s one huge snag in this case: Katie won’t admit she had the baby. She denies giving birth over and over and OVER! This is just making the case more difficult for Ellie.
This book is quite different from most of the other books I’ve read by Jodi Picoult. It still has to do with some issue in a courtroom, but the fact that katie is Amish adds a lot to it. I’m finding the book a little slow-going, actually, since many of the central characters are Amish. Their rules and restrictions complicate the story, because they don’t normally interact with the English legal system. I really can’t wait for all the courtroo...more
