Ep. 14: Saving Noah by Lucinda Berry
Saving Noah challenges everything you think you know about teenage sexual offenders. It will keep you up at night long after you've read the last page, questioning beliefs you once thought were true.
“We forgive murderers, not pedophiles.”
Noah's life, by all accounts, was perfect. That is until the day he confesses to his parents that he molested two young girls. Thankfully, Berry spared readers any graphic depiction of the events. Instead, she grabs you and drags you down into the hell that becomes this family's new normal.
This story is told from the perspective of Adrianne as well as Noah through a then/now timeline. The darkness in this book comes from the situations, not gore or violence. In the last episode of the podcast, I spoke at length about the splatterpunk genre. In those books, graphic depictions of violence are commonplace. Had that taken place in Saving Noah, I do not believe the book would have carried the same impact.
Very powerful read and it is one that won’t leave my memory any time soon.
“Saving Noah challenges everything you think you know about teenage sexual offenders. It will keep you up at night long after you've read the last page, questioning beliefs you once thought were true.”
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