''A Spark of Light'' is a 2018 contemporary novel by

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writer

Jodi Picoult Jodi Lynn Picoult (; born 1966) is an American writer. Picoult has published 28 novels and short stories, and has also written several issues of ''Wonder Woman''. Approximately 40 million copies of her books are in print worldwide and have been t ...

. The plot of the book surrounds a shooting in a women's health clinic in

Mississippi Mississippi ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Louisiana to the s ...

. A police negotiator bargains for the release of hostages including his teenage daughter. The book focuses on the father-daughter dynamic and the issue of

abortion Abortion is the early termination of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus. Abortions that occur without intervention are known as miscarriages or "spontaneous abortions", and occur in roughly 30–40% of all pregnan ...

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2018 American novels Novels by Jodi Picoult Ballantine Books books Hodder & Stoughton books Allen & Unwin books Novels about abortion Novels set in Mississippi Nonlinear narrative novels {{US-novel-stub