Change of Heart: A Novel by Jodi Picoult

Author:Jodi Picoult [Picoult, Jodi]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Literary, Transplantation of Organs; Tissues; Etc., Medical, Repentance, Crime, Romance, Psychological, Transplantation of Organs; Tissues; Etc, General, Murderers
ISBN: 9780743496759
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2008-03-03T06:00:00+00:00

He steepled his fingers. "Huh. " I placed the book he'd loaned me on his desk. "What would you do if you began to second-guess everything you believed?" Rabbi Bloom leaned forward and riffled through his Rolodex. "I would ask more questions, " he said. He scribbled down something on a Post-it and handed it to me. Ian Fletcher. I read. 603-555-1367.

Lucius The night Shay had his second seizure, I was awake, gathering ink that I planned to use to give myself another tattoo. If I do say so myself, I'm rather proud of my homemade tattoos. I had five--my rationale being that my body, up until three weeks ago, wasn't worth much more than being a canvas for my art; plus the threat of getting AIDS from a dirty needle was obviously a moot point. On my left ankle was a clock, with the hands marking the moment of Adam's death. On my left shoulder was an angel, and below it an African tribal design. On my right leg was a bull, because I was a Taurus; and swimming beside it was a fish, for Adam, who was a Pisces. I had grand plans for this sixth one, which I planned to put right on my chest: the word BELIEVE, in Gothic letters. I'd practiced the art in reverse multiple times in pencil and pen, until I felt sure that I could replicate it with my tattoo gun as I worked in the mirror. My first gun had been confiscated by the COs, like Crash's hype kit. It had taken me six months to amass the parts for the new one. Making ink was hard to do, and harder to get away with--which was why I had chosen to work on this during the deadest hours of the night. I had lit a plastic spoon on fire, keeping the flame small so I could catch the smoke in a plastic bag. It stank horribly, and just as I was getting certain the COs would literally get wind of it and shut down my operation, Shay Bourne collapsed next door. This time, his seizure had been different. He'd screamed--so loud that he woke up the whole pod, so loud that the finest dust of plaster drifted down from the ceilings of our cells. To be honest, Shay was such a mess when he was wheeled off I-tier that none of us were sure whether or not he'd be returning--which is why I was stunned to see him being led back to his cell the very next day. "Po-lice, " Joey Kunz yelled, just in time for me to hide the pieces of my tattoo gun underneath the mattress. The officers locked Shay into his cell, and as soon as the door to I-tier shut behind them, I asked Shay how he was feeling. "My head hurts, " he said. "I have to go to sleep. " With Crash still off the tier after the hype kit transgression, things were quieter.

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