Book review- The Storyteller by Jodi Picoult
My thorough understanding (till date) on my reading journey is that if you want to remain humble and want to be grateful for all the “luxuries” received in your life, either read Mahatma Gandhi’s book ‘ The Story of My Experiments with Truth ’ or read about the various accounts of the Holocaust survivors. These stories have constantly given me another reason to remain human and hopeful. “The Storyteller” by American Writer Jodi Picoult is a fictional novel based on events. The story is set in two parallel times, one in the 2000s in the United States and the other during the Holocaust. The three main characters in the novel are Sage Singer, Minka and Josef Weber. Sage Singer is a baker trying hard to live an everyday life following an accident that maimed half her face. Sage suffers from emotional and physical scars and works like a recluse post-accident trauma. Minka, the grandmother of Sage, is a Holocaust survivor. She was imprisoned at Auschwitz, and hers is t...