Summary

Sage Singer, the lead character in Jodi Picoult's novel The Storyteller, makes an effort to hide from the world because she is self-conscious about the facial scar left from a car accident that killed her mother. She works the graveyard shift at a bakery, making delicious breads during the hours the shop is closed, and is involved with a married man, but her unlikely friendship with ninety-five year-old Josef Weber turns her life upside down. It turns out that Josef, who has a stellar reputation in their small New Hampshire town, was an officer at a Nazi concentration camp. His request that Sage help him die brings up old secrets and causes Sage to consider the true meaning of forgiveness.

Note: The book is not divided into relatively equal chapters, but rather into sections of widely-varying lengths that are told from...