This 
 is why I love Jodi. 
 This 
 Is how a realistic, beautiful story ends. 
 This 
 is how she breaks my heart and now I am unable to join the pieces back together. But, I will always get my heart broken by her, even though each time it is painful than the last. 
 This is a true masterpiece. Well, I am a MASSIVE fan of Jodi Picoult. She is a god of realistic writing, she is a wizard who waves her wand and makes me fall in love with her stories. I can chatter happily about her my whole eternity but I rather not. Let's come to the book, shall we? 
 Ok, so this is one of her AMAZING stories and blends together things like disability, law and love. It's her trademark and it works very well each time, each time a piece of me hides in those pages and I can't find it back and this time it took a HUGE piece of me, and I'm scared that I will never find it back. Part of me lives in this book now. (I am not Voldemort, this is not my Horcrux!) 
 It deals with matter of religion, disability, love,law and crime and she handles all these matters with grace. I was awed by Jodi's talent, how she can take such myriad topics and turn them into something utterly beautiful. 
 The story tells us about Ethicism, Forgiveness, Relationships and what not. And she tells them beautifully, the story goes as smooth as butter and as fast as quicksilver, and you want more and more and suddenly it's done, finished which left me gasping for breath. Truly. It was a simple yet marvelously crafted to make something impossible heart wrenching. 
 The story is about a mother whose child and husband were killed. And the supposed murder is now being heard by the court. Now the murderer wants to redeem himself by donating his heart to the mother's only living child who needs it desperately to save her life. well, I won't spoil it for you, you have to read it to know. It is a story about how everything is taken away and how everything can be given back. 
 The characters? They live in my heart now, without paying rent and I don't mind them. I am glad because they stay with me, trying to make me a better person each day, to simply be good, be better than the person who I was yesterday. They play with your mind, with your thoughts, make you want to redeem for the mistakes you have done, accept the failures and then they give you the courage, the courage to get up again and put a bold face. To face all the hardships life has to offer. Though provoking is what they are. A truly inspiring story and the one which makes me keep faith, to keep hope and to believe in it. I don't think God is a person who looks us from above telling us what to do and what not. I believe that God is in everyone, and it speaks through the conscience, it is hope, like a ray of sunshine in utter darkness which makes you strong and prevents you from falling. then again it is totally my viewpoint, you may feel free to ignore it. But it surely does give you optimism, this book. 
 Jodi's tells the story in different viewpoints, through the eyes of a Catholic priest, a mother now alone, without her family, a convicted murderer and a ACLU lawyer. I generally get confused between so may POVs but it was done perfectly without making my poor brain suffer, and the story desperately needed this kind of narration. 
 I finished this story with damp eyes, sore throat and a missing heart. Read it, it is really good and you may find your faith, your hope back.