PERFECT MATCH A Novel

• Main Author: Picoult, Jodi 1966- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York Atria Books 2002
• Subjects: Sexually abused children > Fiction; Public prosecutors > Fiction; Mothers and sons > Fiction; Women murderers > Fiction; Married women > Fiction
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 Picoult brings to life a female prosecutor whose cherished family is shattered when she learns that her five-year-old son has been sexually abused. What does it mean to be a good mother? How far would you go in the name of love -- and justice? In the course of her everyday work, career-driven assistant district attorney Nina Frost prosecutes child molesters and works determinedly to ensure that a legal system with too many loopholes keeps these criminals behind bars. But when her own five-year-old son, Nathaniel, is traumatized by a sexual assault, Nina and her husband, Caleb, a quiet and methodical stone mason, are shattered, ripped apart by an enraging sense of helplessness in the face of a futile justice system that Nina knows all too well. In a heartbeat, Nina's absolute truths and convictions are turned upside down, and she hurtles toward a plan to exact her own justice for her son -- no matter the consequence, whatever the sacrifice. (less)