wah i on the com to blog abt this book tt i read over the weekend at 1950 and it's only at 2208 tt i can finally get down to it.
too many stuff to clear.
btw, too all whom i've recommended this book, dun read further if you dun wanna get spoilered.

salem falls
is a damn nice book.
it's abt this male tcher who's teaching in a girls' sch and as the soccer team coach.
there's this girl, CM, on his team who has a crush on him.
he was so nice to her yet, she led her father (who's a priest) to believe tt she's having an affair with him.
and of cos, he totally flipped.
jack, the tcher, accepted the plea bargain under the advice of his defense attorney
which includes 8 mths of jail and then he's out and within 10 yrs, he'll have this record washed off.
he went in, suffered a great deal and got out 8 mths ltr.

he was just beginning to settle in in salem falls when he got involved in ANOTHER sex scandal. wad an unlucky guy.
apparently, all the folks of salem falls are against him cos they knew of his past, it's part of the plea bargain tt he reports to the police force of wherever he wanna settle down in abt his past record.
everything was super confusing, the way picoult wrote, such tt i nearly thought he did it too.
it's the investigation and the slow revelation of the truth tt's captivating abt this book.
i like, yet dun like the ending.
it's like she ended with jack being acquited but not exactly explaining to us all the little details tt made us doubtful abt him in the first place.
you've gotta figure it out for yourself.
so here goes,
there was semen on the girl's thigh tt cannot be explained, unless jack really did it to her.
then the DNA results for the semen is also doubtful and it was suggested in the book tt someone else who's related to jack have raped her instead.
BUT the big ugly truth is tt,
it was the FATHER who raped her!!
tt's DISGUSTING OMG.
tt's why jack din do it and the DNA results were not as expected cos the girl and the FATHER were related!
tt's like omg.
but this was not mentioned explicitly in the book at all.
tt's why it's best to reread the entire book after reading it once, so tt you can identify all the areas of doubt and go,'of COURSE!'
lol this is paraphrased from her interview in the behind part of the book.

ok i smell nice crabs behind me, shall go have them now!
lol.