vanishing acts, jodi picoult, cycle 24, pages 112-130

delia goes to visit her father in jail. she wants to hear the truth from his mouth, she wants to know who she REALLY is, she wants to believe that her father didnt really do it. but when he tells her that it is all true, instead of understanding, she feels angry towards her father. angry for kidnapping her, angry at herself for being angry, and angry that her father didnt tell her after all these years. she didnt tell eric that she went to visit him. fitz has been assigned to write about this case, he is afraid that delia will be angry about that.

Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult, cycle 23, pages 34-112

Andrew is sent to jail, and then to Arizona to await trial. The jail is horrible. All he can think about is Delia. Delia goes to visit Andrew in the Arizona jail, but when she actually sees him she feels angry at her father for lying to her. She is staying with Sophie and Eric in a hot, bubble gum trailer next to an eccentric but wise old native American women who sells Barbie dolls that she has remade the clothes for to make them into Barbies such as mid life crisis Barbie and pot head Barbie. Meanwhile Eric doesn't want to be Andrews lawyer because he feels he cannot be indifferent to Delia and Andrew. Andrew wants to plead guilty, but Delia has made Eric promise that he will plead the case innocent.
Jodi Picoults writing seems almost like non fiction. The characters in her books seem like they could be real people. She describes her characters enough so that we get a foundation for who they are, but she leaves out enough, requiring the reader to imagine some of them themselves.

Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult, Cycle 22, 32-34

Delia’s daughter doesn't like it when Delia goes on her missions to go look for missing people. She says to her mom “ mommy, do you ever think of me when you go away?”. Delia missed her daughter’s preschool, mother daughter tea because she was off finding a missing four year old. Delia tells her daughter that she is always thinking of her. Meanwhile, Eric is trying to fix his alchohol problem that he’s had since he was a kid because Delia doesn't like it. He is going to Alchoholics anonymous meetings. He is now being Delia’s dad’s attorney. It is hard for him because he want to be a good attorney, but he is also at the same time, Delia’s fiancée.

Vanishing Acts, Jodi Picoult, cycle 21, reading response, 1-32

Delia Hopkins’ job is to find missing people. She works with her dog, Greta. They always find who they are looking for, even if the person is not alive. When Delia is on the job, all she can think about is her job. Whenever she returns the person to their loved ones, she always watches them hold each other in each others arms, and she thanks god that that person is not her daughter.
Ever since she was four, Delia has lived with her dad, who is a magician. She has always been told that her mom died in a car crash when she was four. She has grown up with Eric and Fitz, her two best friends. She is now getting married to Eric, who is the dad of Sophie, her daughter.
One night, when she is at home with her dad and Sophie, the cops pull up to her driveway asking for her father. He has been charged with being a fugitive from justice and kidnapping. The kidnappee just so happens to be Delia.
Jodi Picoult is starting to be known as one of my favorite authors. Her stories all fall into the “Mr. Dyke’s description of a good book”. A book where throughout the entire book, you think you know how it is going to turn out, but it ends up turning out completely differently, but it still makes perfect sense. Jodi’s books are all about things that could really happen in real life, so the reader can relate to them easily.