House Rules

by Jodi Picoult

I didn't care for Handle with Care, but Jodi Picoult redeemed herself with House Rules. It's about a boy with Asperger's Syndrome who's accused of murdering his tutor, and of course, it isn't clear until the end whether or not he did it. A lot of literary types poke fun at authors like Picoult, but I think she generally does a good job exploring the complexities of human emotion. Or maybe I'm just low-brow.