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A review by stacyroth
The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult
3.0
I received an ARC of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my unbiased opinion.
When Dawn Edelstein's plane goes down, what flashes through her mind isn't her husband and daughter; it is Wyatt, a man she left behind in Egypt 15 years ago when she had to quit their Egyptology graduate program at Yale. She has a good life now with her husband Brian, her daughter, and her work as a death doula. However, surviving the plane crash makes her wonder what she missed out on by having to walk away from Egypt and Wyatt. When the airline offers transportation to the survivors to go wherever they want, Dawn has to choose between going home to her current life and family or seeing what might have been in Egypt. The story jumps back and forth between the "Land" timeline in Egypt and the "Water" timeline in Boston.
Jodi Picoult is one of my favorite authors, but this book didn't capture me the way her books usually do. That is not to say that it isn't a good book, because it definitely is. I just had trouble connecting to Dawn. Usually in Picoult's books,we have a handful of narrators providing different angles from the story. I can see why that wouldn't have worked for this story, but I did miss seeing the different angles. I did think it was neat that Picoult knew she needed to write a story about Egyptology after learning about it while her son was majoring in it.
When Dawn Edelstein's plane goes down, what flashes through her mind isn't her husband and daughter; it is Wyatt, a man she left behind in Egypt 15 years ago when she had to quit their Egyptology graduate program at Yale. She has a good life now with her husband Brian, her daughter, and her work as a death doula. However, surviving the plane crash makes her wonder what she missed out on by having to walk away from Egypt and Wyatt. When the airline offers transportation to the survivors to go wherever they want, Dawn has to choose between going home to her current life and family or seeing what might have been in Egypt. The story jumps back and forth between the "Land" timeline in Egypt and the "Water" timeline in Boston.
Jodi Picoult is one of my favorite authors, but this book didn't capture me the way her books usually do. That is not to say that it isn't a good book, because it definitely is. I just had trouble connecting to Dawn. Usually in Picoult's books,we have a handful of narrators providing different angles from the story. I can see why that wouldn't have worked for this story, but I did miss seeing the different angles. I did think it was neat that Picoult knew she needed to write a story about Egyptology after learning about it while her son was majoring in it.