I've read many books about the holocaust though none as complex and interwoven as The Storyteller. As Sage, the twenty-something protagonist, is forceI've read many books about the holocaust though none as complex and interwoven as The Storyteller. As Sage, the twenty-something protagonist, is forced to abandon her lifelong stance of dispassionate distance from her jewish heritage and the holocaust, she takes us into the murky territory of good and evil. I appreciate Picoult's avoidance of making the issue a black and white one while also providing stark contrasts in narrators and settings. With humanity's limitations and potential running through all the characters and settings, I found myself unable to predict the ending, and so kept turning the pages. I was both surprised and not disappointed as the final pages turned. ...more
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