The Storyteller

(Atria) A lonely young woman, Sage Singer, befriends an elderly man, Josef Weber – a pillar in the community. He shocks her by asking her to kill him. She refuses but finds out why he made such a request: He confessed that he is a former Nazi guard. Singer, whose grandmother is a Holocaust survivor, must grapple with the news. The novel explores evil, atonement, accountability, and forgiveness. Picoult is a best-selling author of 21 novels.