His presence in the town is controversial, but no one can do anything about it, until the daughter of the wealthiest resident accuses Jack of raping her. Despite this, he develops a relationship with the woman who owns the town diner, and they fall deeply in love. He moves to a new town, where no one knows him, but almost immediately people find out why he was in prison. Bride, a man who spent almost a year in prison because he was accused of statutory rape. She wished with all her heart that this had happened differently, but she had learned that words were like eggs dropped from great heights: You could no more call them back than ignore the mess they left when they fell.

To just read my overall thoughts, skip to the bottom! - ii. The themes the book covers isn’t my cup of tea, especially compared to a lot of her other works, but it was a great book nevertheless.

She has one of the most creative minds I’ve ever encountered in fiction, and Salem Falls is no exception. I always think there’s not much more to tell, but as usual, she proves me wrong. If an entire community identifies a guy by his past convictions, how will anybody ever get past that to accept his presence?ĭamn, throughout Jodi Picoult’s canon, I feel like she’s covered so much throughout the contemporary world. “I think,” she said finally, “that all of us have got our ghosts.” - i. There’s so many she’s written, so it’s tough to get through them all when there’s so much out there to read-but with the closing of this story, I’m about three quarters of the way to finishing her canon. I’m so excited that I had the chance to read another Jodi Picoult novel.

Salem falls by jodi picoult