Five Days

 My Rating-4/5

This book is an engrossing novella. The author has evoked a whole myriad of emotions within a couple of pages.

This book encapsulates five days, during which the life of a twelve-year-old boy Bryson changes forever. The author has done a fabulous job in depicting the atmosphere of a household with a terminal ill patient.

As this book is told from the perspective of a child, we are shown explicitly how such dire circumstances affect the psychology of a child. Moreover, the author has also depicted how sometimes parents fail to acknowledge the child in such tough circumstances and do not share the reality of things with them so as not to burden them with grief at such a tender age.

   This book should be on the TBR of every Jodi Picoult fan as this book can provide you with the essence of her emotion-filled novels within a couple of pages.