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 | Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult | Reviewed by Harriet Klausner | |
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| Publisher: Atria
http://www.simonandschuster.com ISBN: 0743496728 Genre: Fiction Subgenre: Social Commmentary Release date: Mar 2007 Format: Hardcover Pages: 464 Price: $26.95 | |||
| It takes nineteen minutes to kill nine students and one teacher and wound eighteen students to the extent that they need to be hospitalized. On March 6, 2007, seventeen year-old student Peter Haughton put a pipe bomb he had constructed into a student’s car as a diversion, then went to Sterling High School where he shot a student on the steps, went into the cafeteria, wounded and injured a few more, and walked the hallways leading to the gym and into the locker room, where his killing spree ended when police detective Patrick DuCharme ordered him by gunpoint to drop his weapon.
He was carrying two handguns, two shotguns, and some incendiary devices. Peter tells his lawyer that he had killed those who had made his life hell since he was in kindergarten when one of the bullies had thrown his lunchbox out of the school bus window. Peter has been systematically abused verbally, emotionally, and physically for the last twelve years because he was a misfit. His only friend, Josie, the daughter of Judge Alex Cormier, was the catalyst that had driven him over the edge. His only friend Josie had dumped him to be one of the in-crowd and be Matt Reyson’s girlfriend. Matt was the last person that Peter killed. His defense attorney, Jordan McAfee, has to plan a defense even though his client had been caught on tape killing students and there were hundreds of witnesses who had seen him do the shooting. Jodi Picoult blends a legal thriller with a family drama and comes up with a fascinating (in a macabre way) work of mainstream fiction. The author doesn’t ever excuse what Peter did but through the use of flashbacks and rotating perspectives shows how years of torture had erupted in a killing spree. Although readers will loathe Peter for what he did, they will understand that it takes a village to raise a child; and, in the case of Sterling, New Hampshire, everyone, including his own parents, had failed in some way. | |||
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