# A Spark of Light - Library Binding

by **Jodi Picoult** (Author)

**#1 _NEW YORK TIMES_ BESTSELLER** \- **The author of _Small Great Things_ returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis.**

**"Picoult at her fearless best . . . Timely, balanced and certain to inspire debate."--_The Washington Post_**

The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center--a women's reproductive health services clinic--its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage.

After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages he glances at it and, to his horror, finds out that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic.

But Wren is not alone. She will share the next and tensest few hours of her young life with a cast of unforgettable characters: A nurse who calms her own panic in order to save the life of a wounded woman. A doctor who does his work not in spite of his faith but because of it, and who will find that faith tested as never before. A pro-life protester, disguised as a patient, who now stands in the crosshairs of the same rage she herself has felt. A young woman who has come to terminate her pregnancy. And the disturbed individual himself, vowing to be heard.

Told in a daring and enthralling narrative structure that counts backward through the hours of the standoff, this is a story that traces its way back to what brought each of these very different individuals to the same place on this fateful day.

One of the most fearless writers of our time, Jodi Picoult tackles a complicated issue in this gripping and nuanced novel. How do we balance the rights of pregnant women with the rights of the unborn they carry? What does it mean to be a good parent? _A Spark of Light_ will inspire debate, conversation . . . and, hopefully, understanding.

**Look in the back of the book for reader's discussion questions and a conversation with Jodi Picoult.**

**Praise for _A Spark of Light_**

"This is Jodi Picoult at her best: tackling an emotional hot-button issue and putting a human face on it."**\--**_**People**_  
  
"Told backward and hour by hour, Jodi Picoult's compelling narrative deftly explores controversial social issues."**\--_Us Weekly_**

### Author Biography

**Jodi Picoult** is the #1 _New York Times_ bestselling author of twenty-three novels, including _Small Great Things,_ _Leaving Time, The Storyteller, Lone Wolf, Sing You Home, House Rules, Handle with Care, Change of Heart, Nineteen Minutes,_ and _My Sister's Keeper_. She is also the author, with daughter Samantha van Leer, of two young adult novels, _Between the Lines_ and _Off the Page_. Picoult lives in New Hampshire.

**Dimensions:** 1.1 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN

**Publication Date:** October 07, 2020

**Large Print:** Yes

**Accelerated Reader:**

**Quiz Name:** Spark of Light

**Interest Level:** Upper Grades, 9-12

**Reading Level:** 5.8

**Point Value:** 17

## Details

- **Price:** 18.0 USD
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- **Type:** Books
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