The Tenth Circle

The Tenth Circle--------------------------------------------------When Daniel Stone was a child, he was the only white boy in a nativeEskimo village where his mother taught, and he was teased mercilesslybecause he was different. He fought back, the baddest of the bad kids:stealing, drinking, robbing and cheating his way out of the Alaskanbush where he honed his artistic talent, fell in love with a girl andgot her pregnant. To become part of a family, he reinvented himselfjettisoning all that anger to become a docile, devoted husband andfather. Fifteen years later, when we meet Daniel again, he is a comicbook artist. His wife teaches Dante's Inferno at a local college, hisdaughter, Trixie, is the light of his life and a girl who only knowsher father as the even-tempered, mild-mannered man he has been herwhole life. Until, that is, she is date raped ...and Daniel finds himselfstruggling, again, with a powerlessness and a rage that may not justswallow him whole, but destroy his family and his future.--------------------------------------------------Author Biography: Jodi Picoult grew up in Nesconset, New York. Shereceived an A.B. in creative writing from Princeton and a master'sdegree in education from Harvard. Her previous novels include KEEPINGFAITH, THE PACT, and MERCY. She lives in New Hampshire with her husbandand three children.