House Rules
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3.3 • 88 Ratings
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- $13.99
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- $13.99
Publisher Description
'Picoult writes with unassuming brilliance.' - Stephen King
'Picoult has become a master - almost a clairvoyant - at targeting hot issues and writing highly readable page-turners about them . It is impossible not to be held spellbound by the way she forces us to think, hard, about right and wrong.' - Washington Post
Jacob Hunt is a teenage boy with Asperger's syndrome. He's hopeless at reading social cues or expressing himself to others, and like many children with Asperger's, Jacob has an obsessive focus on one subject - in his case, forensic analysis. He's always showing up at crime scenes, thanks to the police scanner he keeps in his room, and telling the cops what they need to do - and he's usually right. But then one day his tutor is found dead, and the police come to question him. Reluctance to make eye contact, stimulatory tics and twitches, inappropriate gestures, all these can look a lot like guilt. Suddenly, Jacob finds himself accused of murder.
House Rules looks at what it means to be different in our society, and at the extremes of love and loyalty a family must call upon to help each other overcome impossible circumstances.
Jodi Picoult is the author of 16 bestselling and widely - acclaimed novels. Read more about her on her website www.jodipicoult.com.au
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
An absorbing courtroom drama with many emotional layers, House Rules centres on a teen with Asperger’s syndrome. Jacob Hunt is a self-styled criminologist who’s strongly inspired by a procedural TV show, but that passion for forensics puts him squarely under suspicion when his tutor is murdered in their close-knit town. As the plot unfolds through multiple characters’ perspectives, Jodi Picoult brings real sensitivity and understanding to Jacob’s unique viewpoint. To other characters in the book, the teen’s response to questioning only points to his guilt, and even his immediate family struggles with what the truth might be. A true-to-life tale of how thinking differently can provoke blame in others, this is another multi-faceted novel from Picoult.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Perennial bestseller Picoult (Handle with Care) has a rough time in this Picoult-esque blend of medical and courtroom drama that lacks her usual storytelling finesse. Eighteen-year old Jacob Hunt has Asperger's syndrome, and his devoted single mother, Emma, has built their family's life around Jacob's needs, sacrificing her career to act as his caregiver and all but ignoring a younger son, Theo. But when Jacob is accused of murder, that carefully crafted life comes apart, and all of the hallmarks of Jacob's diagnosis begin to make him look guilty. Emma hires a young attorney whose attachment to Jacob brings him close to the family as he struggles to mount a defense for Jacob, whose inability to read social cues makes him less than an ideal client. While Picoult's research is impeccable and she deals intelligently with charged questions about autism and Asperger's, the whodunit is stretched sitcom-thin and handled poorly, with characters withholding information from the reader throughout. Picoult's writing, line by line, is as smooth as ever, and she does a great job of getting into Jacob's head, but the wobbly plotting is a massive detriment.
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