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Picture Perfect
1st edition
AuthorJodi Picoult
LanguageEnglish
GenreFamily saga novel
PublisherAllen & Unwin
Publication date
1995
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Paperback)
Pages369 pp
ISBN1-74114-245-8
OCLC156344828

Picture Perfect (1995) is a novel by Jodi Picoult about a female anthropologist and the history of abuse she receives from her celebrity husband.

Plot summary

Cassie Barrett, a renowned anthropologist, awakes lying atop a grave, suffering from amnesia and unable to recall any details about herself or her situation. She is taken in by Will Flying Horse, a half-Lakota Los Angeles police officer, until she is retrieved by her husband, Alex Rivers, a Hollywood celebrity. As she returns to her Bel Air mansion, it would appear she lives a picture perfect life, until memories gradually return to her of Alex's repetitive violent behavior towards her, and after finding a positive pregnancy test in her bathroom, she flees to Will who hides her on the Lakota reservation in South Dakota. She later returns to Hollywood with her son Connor, and after a final incident of abuse from Alex, she reveals in a press conference that she is divorcing him on grounds of extreme cruelty.

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