Saturday 15 December 2007

Plain Truth by Jodie Picoult AUDIO

AZ: "The discovery of a dead infant in an Amish barn shakes Lancaster County to its core. But the police investigation leads to a more shocking disclosure: circumstantial evidence suggests that eighteen-year-old Katie Fisher, an unmarried Amish woman believed to be the newborn's mother, took the child's life. When Ellie Hathaway, a disillusioned big city attorney, comes to Paradise, Pennsylvania, to defend Katie, two cultures collide and, for the first time in her high profile career, Ellie faces a system of justice very different from her own. Delving deep into the world of those who live 'plain', Ellie must find a way to reach Katie on her terms. As she unravels a tangled murder case, Ellie also looks deep within to confront her own fears and desires when a man from her past comes back into her life."

Long due to being an audio book but still held me the way her books tend to. Taught me a lot about the Amish, who call themselves Plain, and I identified with the Plain movement away from consumerist individualism. Plain is not being different but being the same, against the need to be an individual.

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