The Tenth Circle

　　十四歲的翠克西瘋狂的自殘，被強暴的痛楚她無力承受，蕩婦、淫娃、賤貨的罵名令她崩潰，唯有使力劃開手腕，她才能為自己殘餘的生命找到出口。那強暴翠克西的男孩該死，但他的死卻為翠克西帶來另一場災難，她成了各地警察追捕的嫌疑犯，翠克西知道只有不斷地逃亡，她才有可能開始新的人生。

　　《紐約時報》暢銷書作家茱迪．皮考特打破父母應該無所不知的完美形象，顛覆父母無所不能的荒謬論調。被強暴的女兒、出軌的妻子衝擊這個看似美滿的家庭，以為對彼此徹底了解、親密無間的家人，在悲劇發生後，才發現彼此早成了陌生人，他們該如何讓脫軌的人生回歸正軌？一切是否能無傷的回到從前？

　　Jodi Picoult, the New York Times bestselling author of Vanishing Acts, offers her most powerful chronicle yet of an American family with a story that probes the unbreakable bond between parent and child — and the dangerous repercussions of trying to play the hero.

　　Trixie Stone is fourteen years old and in love for the first time. She’s also the light of her father’s life — a straight-A student; a freshman in high school who is pretty and popular; a girl who’s always looked up to Daniel Stone as a hero. Until, that is, her world is turned upside down with a single act of violence. . . and suddenly everything Trixie has believed about her family — and herself — seems to be a lie.

　　For fifteen years, Daniel Stone has been an even-tempered, mild-mannered man: a stay-at-home dad to Trixie and a husband who has put his own career as a comic book artist behind that of his wife, Laura, who teaches Dante’s Inferno at a local college. But years ago, he was completely different: growing up as the only white boy in an Eskimo village, he was teased mercilessly for the color of his skin. He learned to fight back: stealing, drinking, robbing, and cheating his way out of the Alaskan bush. To become part of a family, he reinvented himself, channeling his rage onto the page and burying his past completely. . . until now. Could the young boy who once made Trixie’s face fill with light when he came to the door have been the one to end her childhood forever? She says that he is, and that is all it takes to make Daniel, a man with a history he has hidden even from his family, venture to helland back in order to protect his daughter.

　　The Tenth Circle looks at that delicate moment when a child learns that her parents don’t know all of the answers and when being a good parent means letting go of your child. It asks whether you can reinvent yourself in the course of a lifetime or if your mistakes are carried forever — if life is, as in any good comic book, a struggle to control good and evil, or if good and evil control you.