Ghosts and ghost hunters collide in this compelling tale of the paranormal set in Vermont's green mountains. When the patriarch of the Abenaki Indian tribe that was nearly eradicated by that state's eugenics project in the 1930s encounters Ross Wakeman, the miraculous survivor of several attempted suicides who wants nothing more than to be reunited with the woman he loved and lost, they set in motion a chain of events that will unravel an ancient murder and lead to a second chance at life and love for the victim's descendants. Picoult brings the past alive and peoples it with a cast of extraordinarily well-realized characters whose reach into the future touches the lives of a dying boy, a frightened girl, and their mothers--two women who've given up on love until the revenants stirred up by a plan to develop an ancient burial ground show them what they're missing. Second Glance is an intricate and suspenseful ghost story that enchants and illuminates all the way to its powerful conclusion.
This is an amazing, beautiful, captivating ghost story. There are so many elements of this book that are fascinating---a lynching in the 1930's, an embarrassing chapter in America's history, strangely lovely phenomenon, and characters you will fall in love with. I haven't read any of Jodi Picoult's other works but based on this I would say she is an incredibly gifted writer.
Like many of the reviewers on Amazon, I felt this story started a little slowly and with a lot of characters, but I quickly became captivated by it, and seeing how all the characters are inter-connected at the end was brilliant. This is one of the best books I've ever read.
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