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  • By: Jodi Picoult
  • Narrated by: George Guidall
  • Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (61 ratings)

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Second Glance

By: Jodi Picoult
Narrated by: George Guidall
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"Sometimes I wonder.... Can a ghost find you if she wants to?"

An intricate tale of love, haunting memories, and renewal, Second Glance begins in current-day Vermont, where an old man puts a piece of land up for sale and unintentionally raises protest from the local Abenaki Indian tribe, who insist it's a burial ground. When odd, supernatural events plague the town of Comtosook, a ghost hunter is hired by the developer to help convince the residents that there's nothing spiritual about the property.

Enter Ross Wakeman, a suicidal drifter who has put himself in mortal danger time and again. He's driven his car off a bridge into a lake. He's been mugged in New York City and struck by lightning in a calm country field. Yet despite his best efforts, life clings to him and pulls him ever deeper into the empty existence he cannot bear since his fiancée's death in a car crash eight years ago. Ross now lives only for the moment he might once again encounter the woman he loves. But in Comtosook, the only discovery Ross can lay claim to is that of Lia Beaumont, a skittish, mysterious woman who, like Ross, is on a search for something beyond the boundary separating life and death.

Thus begins Jodi Picoult's enthralling and ultimately astonishing story of love, fate, and a crime of passion. Hailed by critics as a "master" storyteller (Washington Post), Picoult once again "pushes herself, and consequently the reader, to think about the unthinkable" (Denver Post). Second Glance, her eeriest and most engrossing work yet, delves into a virtually unknown chapter of American history - Vermont's eugenics project of the 1920s and '30s - to provide a compelling study of the things that come back to haunt us - literally and figuratively. Do we love across time or in spite of it?

©2003 Jodi Picoult (P)2003 Simon & Schuster

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Second Glance..... Brilliant

Jodi at her best again.
She gets me so engrossed in her books and the twists are fantastic.
She is a brilliant author.

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Nerve wracking compelling stretching credibility but never trite.

Brilliant. Especially on trucking the evils of racist eugenics in 1920,s America. Spine tngling

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Another Jodi Picoult book that I've loved!

I really enjoyed the voice of the narrator. His delivery of the story was excellent. The story was intriguing and the characters complex and multifaceted. I will definitely be listening to all of Jodi Picoult's books..

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Amazing

Excellent book. A page turner. I did not want to stop listening. Intriguing. Love it!

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How plausibly the story is presented.

This was the first Jodi Picoult book I read decades ago and the inspiration to read every book she has written! Jodi is impeccable in researching subjects, which adds weight to her stories. Second Glance is an excellent book!

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Disappointed

I Have enjoyed Jodi Picoult’s novels for years but struggled to get through this one.

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terrible

its all over the place?
I couldn't even finish it. such a shame.
terrible read

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Unbelievable

So far fetched and unbelievable.
Ross is so grieved for his dead fiancé he falls in love with a ghost!
The only part that seemed it could be realistic is the attitude and raw treatment of Cissy by her husband. There is definitely a display of arrogance and prejudice from that period.
There is authenticity in the role of DNA and genetics and its very early stages in the early mid twentieth century.
Very hard to read to the end but stuck it out for my Grandaughter who wanted to do a review with her mum and myself. I hope the next Jodi Picoult I read is better.

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far fetched

The story was just too over the top unrealistic for me. Narrator was good though.





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