Review: The Book of Two Ways

The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Dawn was living a mostly happy life when a crash landing made her question the choices she has made in the past. During the fleeting moments of the plane going down, she wasn’t thinking of her husband, but of the man she hasn’t seen for fifteen years. The airline has her checked by a doctor and then offers to transport her anywhere she wants to go. She should go back to Boston. That is where her husband and daughter are, but she finds herself thinking about Wyatt, the archaeologist she left behind, and the research she abandoned years ago. What questions will Dawn face as her two possible futures unfold?

The Book of Two Ways is a stand-alone realistic fiction novel about hope and life choices (both the hard and everyday kinds). Picoult does her magic again where she embeds information about a topic throughout her novel so that readers leave feeling as if they have not only read a great story but have become more knowledgeable about Egyptian archeology. As a person who frequently visited the Egyptian exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago, I have always held a fascination with archeology and this story had just enough to teach without feeling like school. This is a great book, even if Picoult isn’t one of your go-to authors.


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