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Plain Truth Book Report

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The book I chose for my book report is Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult. Jodi was born May 19, 1966 in Nesconset, NY. She studied writing at Princeton University and earned her masters degree in education from Harvard University. Jodi is the best selling author of 23 novels. There are approximately 14 million copies of her books worldwide. Plain Truth was the seventh book she wrote, it was written in 2000 and published in 2001. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. She's married to Timothy Warren Van Leer with 3 three children Sammy, Kyle , and Jake.

The general plot in the book tells how a dead infant found on an Amish farm shakes the entire community. As the police investigate the death, they discover that …show more content…

An eighteen-year-old, unmarried Amish girl, Katie Fisher, is charged with murder of her new-born son, but denies ever being pregnant. Ellie Hathaway, a top defense lawyer and a distant relative of Katie, reluctantly accepts the case after a confrontation with her aunt (the relative who connects her with Katie by marriage). As part of the bail conditions of the pre-trial hearing, Ellie has to remain on the farm with Katie prior to the trial a period that lasts several months. A doctor determines that the infant was born prematurely and could have died from natural causes due to listeriosis, a bacterial infection which Katie contracted from constantly drinking unpasteurized milk from their Amish farm. During that time, Ellie begins a relationship with her former lover Coop (a legal psychologist she trusts with Katie's interviews), she had previously left years before. On the first day of Katie's trial, Ellie finds out she is pregnant with Coop's baby. Coop asks Ellie to marry him immediately, but she defers. After the jury deliberates for several days, Katie cops a plea and is sentenced to one year of electronic monitoring, allowing her to stay at the

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