In a compelling novel about how a family deals with and survives a tragic event, Jodi Picoult explores the boundaries of love and resilience in a family. In Perfect Match Nina Frost learns that her son has been sexually assaulted and deals with the entire process of helping to bring the person who did this to him to justice. Throughout the novel she pursues many suspects, ultimately leading her to bring the guilty one to justice. This process puts a very large strain on the family and the home life especially at one point, when her husband, the boy's father, becomes a suspect. There are many turning points in the story that tear at the fabric of the family. In the end though, the family catches the culprit and he is arrested and put away, although for the family that is not the end. Nina and her family have to then from that point learn how to move past this tragic event that ripped apart their family and learn to put it back together.
This relates with my story about a girl, Emily, who is twenty-two just out of college with Honors, got a job at the most prestigious paper in the city, but joins the wrong group of friends. While being pressured into robbing a convenient store, Emily is torn between the decisions, but in the end goes with them to fit in. After being caught, but let go, Emily and her family then have to learn how to move on from that and get to a point where they can all accept each other again.
This sounds like a great story Liz. One book that you could read for a mentor text is Street Lawyer. I had to read it at Archies sophmore year. I forget the name of the writer but it is about a lawyer who works for a big corperate firm, but he learns that it is covering up some major crimes that resulted in peoples deaths so then he leaves the firm and works to help try and bring the firm to justice.
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