The Librarian's Son

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>That's where I died.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Jessie Wilton's three-year-old son utters these words during a rebroadcast of the 9/11 terror attacks she is forced to acknowledge a shocking possibility: that </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>her firefighter-obsessed child is recalling the life of a first responder who died with his boyfriend in the Twin Towers</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>To Jessie and her wife accepting that their child may be </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>the reincarnation of a man killed decades ago</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> challenges everything they thought they knew about life...and death. But as word of his extraordinary past-life memories leaks out to their small conservative town</span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> an extremist organization accuses Jessie of grooming her child to be gay</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-and brands her a danger to the community she serves as a youth librarian. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>With neighbors' hostility escalating to anonymous threats Jessie begins to feel unsafe in her own home. The arrival of a mysterious stalker adds to her dread just as the organization demands that she be fired from her job. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Can Jessie find a way to free her town from the malignant influence of the group that is demonizing her and regain the fragile peace her family has found there? </span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Librarian's Son</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> will appeal to </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>readers who enjoy Jodi Picoult's exploration of contemporary hot-button social issues</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. </span></p><p></p>