I was pleasantly surprised by this short story. I have only read one other book by Jodi Picoult and I really didn't like the writing style so much so I just started skipping ahead to find out what happened. When I do that I am not really enjoying the book. I really liked the writing style of this book. I like the main character Serenity and I read that she appears in Picoult's new book Leaving time so I will look for tht book in the fall and I'll read the excerpt of it included with this book.