The Tenth Circle - Hardcover

"* 'She is quite a find, in Anita Shreve territory, an author tackling gritty problems... So watch out, she's well worth supporting' - Sarah Broadhurst, Bookseller * 'Picoult has an eye for detail and is a dab hand at plot twists' - Suzie Doore, Waterstone's * 'Jodi Picoult is an author to watch' - Ann Walker, Ottakar's * 'Jodi Picoult is not one to shy away from fictional controversy; in fact, the more tangled and messy a moral dilemma appears, the better she likes it. - Daily Mail * 'Picoult offers a perfectly pitched take on the great mysteries of the heart' - Kirkus Reviews"

When Daniel Stone was a child, he was the only white boy in a native Eskimo village where his mother taught, and he was teased mercilessly because he was different. He fought back, the baddest of the bad kids: stealing, drinking, robbing and cheating his way out of the Alaskan bush - where he honed his artistic talent, fell in love with a girl and got her pregnant. To become part of a family, he reinvented himself - jettisoning all that anger to become a docile, devoted husband and father. Fifteen years later, when we meet Daniel again, he is a comic book artist. His wife teaches Dante's Inferno at a local college; his daughter, Trixie, is the light of his life - and a girl who only knows her father as the even-tempered, mild-mannered man he has been her whole life. Until, that is, she is date raped and Daniel finds himself struggling, again, with a powerlessness and a rage that may not just swallow him whole, but destroy his family and his future.