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S AGE SINGER IS A YOUNG WOMAN LIVING IN NEW Hampshire. Two years ago, her mother died in a car accident while Sage was with her; she survived with only a scar on her cheek. However, the scar constantly reminds Sage of her mother's death, for which she feels responsible. Sage often attempts to hide the scar behind her hair and works night at a bakery, which is owned by her best friend, Mary D'Angelis, so she does not have to see other people. She believes her sisters, Pepper and Saffron, place the blame for their mother's death on her, as well. Because of this, she tries to avoid them at all costs. Sage is in a relationship with Adam, a married man, which does not seem to bother her.

When Sage attends a group for those struggling with grief, she meets Josef Weber, the much-loved member of their community whose wife recently passed. Josef and Sage form a friendship. When their bond becomes deeper, Josef begins to tell her stories of his past. In World War II, Josef was a Nazi commander at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. He tells Sage how he had to kill many people at the concentration camp, and he feels a deep guilt for the horrible crimes he committed. Then, he asks Sage to help him commit suicide.

After much deliberation, she decides to call the police to tell them that she has discovered that Josef is a Nazi. She is directed to a Department of Justice worker named Leo Stein. Leo does not believe Josef is a Nazi because he thinks it unusual that someone would come forth with that information, and there is no Nazi named Josef Weber in his records. Sage eventually convinces Josef to give her his real nameReiner Hartmann. Leo confirms that there was a Reiner Hartmann working at Auschwitz.

Sage helps Leo gather information about Josef through his photographs and documents. Leo comes to Sage's house to investigate what she has gathered. Leo tells Sage the information is accurate, but there is not enough to confirm that Josef is Reiner. To do that, Sage must get Josef to confess to a crime that no one else would know.

Minka, Sage's grandmother, survived Auschwitz. Leo convinces Minka to reveal her past in Auschwitz. She begins telling them about her life in a Polish Ghetto and later, Auschwitz. She and her best friend, Darija, were writing a story when an SS guard, Franz Hartmann, read it. The story helped him understand the relationship he had with his brother. In exchange for reading the story, he brought food scraps for Minka and Darija.

One day, Franz arrived at work with Darija and Minka, and Minka caught Reiner stealing money. Reiner shot Darija in the face and blamed Minka for stealing the money. Leo and Sage show Minka a photograph of Reiner, and Minka confirms his identity.

Sage is sent to talk with Josef with wires to record his confession. He reveals that the worst thing he did was kill Darija. He explained that he meant to kill Minka, but the bullet hit Darija instead. After Sage leaves Josef's house, she learns that he attempted suicide. Later, she finds out her grandmother died in her sleep. Sage blames herself for her grandmother's death. Her grandmother's death leads to Sage's decision to help Josef commit suicide. She does this by poisoning him with a pastry like the one her grandfather would make for her grandmother.

After Josef dies, she finds out that his blood type does not match Reiner's blood type. When she goes through his belongings and finds the story her grandmother wrote, she realizes that Josef was Franz, not Reiner.

O N MAY 19, 1966, IN NESCONSET, LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK, Jodi Picoult was born. When she reached the young age of 13, Picoult's family relocated to New Hampshire. Though she was raised in a Jewish family, Picoult no longer practices the religion.

In 1987, Picoult graduated Princeton University, where she was a student of writing. Her first introduction to writing was at the age of five when she wrote her first story. While attending Princeton, Picoult had two of her short stories published in Seventeen magazine. After her graduation from the university, she took jobs as an eighth-grade English teacher, textbook editor, and several other jobs. During this time, she also continued her education at Harvard University by studying for her master's in Education.

Songs of the Humpback Whale , Picoult's first novel, was released in 1992. Her second novel, Harvesting the Heart was released the following year. Over the next four years, Picoult released Picture Perfect, Mercy, The Pact, and Keeping the Faith . After the turn of the century, Picoult's novels Plain Truth, Salem Falls, Perfect Match, and Second Glance were released. In 2004, one of Picoult's most popular novels, My Sister's Keeper , was published. The novel was later turned into a feature film. The following three years saw the publication of Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes .