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Violence
Some
A fatal car accident and its aftermath; end-of-life care depicted in detail
Language
Some
Moderate language; Picoult's multi-perspective register
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult relationships
Substance Use
None
Moderate drinking in one character's backstory
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The ethics of end-of-life decisions when family cannot agree, whether loyalty to a parent can survive what the parent put you through, the question of what wolves can teach humans about family
What this book is about
Luke Warren spent months living with wolves — not observing them, living among them as a member of the pack. His work changed how people understand wolves. Now he's in a coma after a car accident, and his family is divided: his daughter Cara wants to keep him on life support and his estranged son Luke wants to let him go. Jodi Picoult's novel uses Luke's devotion to wolf pack behavior as an extended meditation on the nature of family loyalty, the law's limits in end-of-life decisions, and the different ways people love someone they also resent.
Notes for sensitive readers
Reader-flagged moments and themes that may affect your experience.
end-of-life and life support decisions as the central conflict
family estrangement and its causes
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