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April 4 • 2013
Telling Their Stories
In her latest novel, Jodi Picoult
tackles the Holocaust.
Sandee Brawarsky
Special to the Jewish News
E
arly on in Jodi Picoult's new
novel, The Storyteller (Atria),
Josef Weber comments that
Sage Singer doesn't say much in
their grief support group, but when
she does speak up, she's a poet. She
answers firmly that she's no poet,
but a baker. His response, "Can a
person not be two things at once?"
foreshadows the story.
The Storyteller, which reached the
top of the New York Times bestseller
list just weeks after it was published,
is Picoult's first novel to touch upon
the Holocaust. She's the author of
21 novels, many of them bestsellers,
including Lone Wolf House Rules
and Change of Heart.
"I write what I feel is the right
story to tell;' she says, in an inter-
view in New York City at the begin-
ning of her book tour last month.
"This was important to me: It had
its roots in big questions about good
and evil.
"Could you do something really
bad, and wipe away that stain? And,
and on the flip side, if you consider
yourself a good person, what could
tip you over to do something really
bad?"
Picoult went back and reread
Simon Wiesenthal's The Sunflower
— when he writes of being in a
concentration camp and brought to
the death bed of an SS officer, who
sought forgiveness from a Jew —
and thought to update that. She'd tell
a very different story, featuring not
a concentration camp survivor but
the descendent of a survivor of the
Holocaust.
"Genocides are happening every
day. Evil is happening every day:' she
says. "With so many survivors dying,
it's important that this story not get
lost:'
Her story, set in a small New
Hampshire town, is actually several
intertwined stories, with several sto-
rytellers.
Sage, the young baker, is the
granddaughter of Minka Singer, a
concentration camp survivor. The
reader hears both of their stories
(and Minka is telling Sage of her
nightmarish experience for the first
time), as well as that of Josef, who
has buried his own secret past, and
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR
JODI
PICOULT
THE STORYTELLER
"My goal is not to tell
you what to think but
to tell you to think
about social issues,"
says author Jodi
Picoult.
Leo Stein, who works for the FBI
searching for Nazis.
Josef turns to Sage, a Jew who
doesn't particularly embrace that
identity, to confess his past and ask
a favor, presenting her with a moral
quandary.
Baking and mourning run through
all of the stories: Sage is a baker
who works through the night, in the
shadows of her mother's death, and
she's able to open up and speak most
honestly when her hands are busy
kneading dough or shaping rolls.
Minka's father was the town baker
before his murder, and in her 90s,
she still bakes several loaves of bread
every Friday in order to give it away.
Every day, Josef comes to the bakery
where Sage works and shares his roll
with his dog.
Picoult's writing, unveiling and
connecting these strands of stories,
is energetically paced. The Holocaust
is new ground for the author, who
grew up on Long Island and lives
with her husband and children in
New Hampshire. There are no sur-