I have just started reading the book The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult. I found this because of my obsession with My Sisters' Keeper that i read last year for outside reading. What intrigues me most about Picoult is that her novels really relate to today's society and the characters are close in age to young adults.
The Tenth Circle is about a girl named Trixie and her life as a 9th grade student at Bethel High School, along with her parents Daniel and Laura; Laura is a professor at Monroe College teaching the subject of Dante, and Daniel is a comic book artist. The book sort of switches off from each of the main characters, and their view on what is happening to go on in their life at the moment. Right now, I am learning all about the troubles of Daniel and Laura's marriage, and how they have begun to slip away from eachother. Laura is in the midst of an affair with one of her college students, and Daniel is so worked up in his new comic strip he hasn't payed much attention to her absence. However, Daniel puts much of his effort into his relationship with Trixie. He dwells over how fast she has grown up, and reminisces about the days when they would dream of becoming superheroes. Worst of all, Trixie has replaced her father with her new love Jason.