Outside Reading Post 1

Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult has definitely kept me interested so far. The book centers around a woman, Nina Frost, who is a district attorney. She loves her son and husband, but is so career-driven that she makes decisions putting her work in front of her family. She has a hearing for an important case one day, and in order to get there she sends her sick son to school as she shows us when she thinks, "Two Tylenol will buy me time; I could be finished with the rape case before getting a call from Miss Lydia to come get my son" (8). Nina cares for her son but is willing to put him through school so she can finish a part of her job. Caleb is Nina's husband who is also, a builder, very deliberate, and wishes his wife was home more. I think that this scenario is very interesting because one usually hears about the husband being too committed to his career.
The "rape case" that Nina is dealing with currently deals with a young girl who tells her mother that her father was molesting her. However, since the judge says the victim is not competent because the action occurred when she was 3, the case is dropped until the victim is older. That's when me meet Patrick. Patrick, a cop, and Nina have been best friends since they were little and lived in the same neighborhood, and currently they are meeting for lunch. It is my personal suspicion that Patrick has a thing for Nina because of the way the author says, "All Patrick knows is that his back can be to the door, and when Nina comes in, he can feel it-a tickle of energy on the nape of his neck, a snap to attention as every eye in the place turns toward her" (25).
I believe that not only will Nina have to make a difficult decision in the future concerning her family and work, but also have to deal with Patrick who might want to be more that just friends. The already intriguing plot has captured my attention within the first 30 pages of Perfect Match.