Nineteen Minutes - Autobiographical Elements

Autobiographical Elements

Jodi Picoult says her "children struggled with fitting in and being bullied" which made them "guinea pigs" for her characters in the novel. She knew the topic, bullying, was a universal one because everyone has experienced it in some way.

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