Testimony by Anita Shreve

Anita Shreve is definitely one of my favorite authors. One of the things I like (and it's a weird thing to like) is that I don't always like her books. I wasn't a fan of A Wedding in December or Body Surfing, but I still love most everything she does and continue to look forward to new books from her.

Testimony was one of the best books I've read in a long time. It's the story of a private school scandalized by a sex tape (so hollywood!). You soon learn that the whole thing is precipated by a patch of black ice. It's very much like the Butterfly Effect (at least I thought of it that way). The story is told from many different character's perspective and it really adds layers. Some people only appear once, some people get a big voice, but every persepctive makes you see something you may not have thought of.

It really makes you think about how the choices you make can effect every person around you. Every action we take can ripple through our friends, family and sometimes, people we don't even know. It's this kind of story that makes you take pause before you do something reckless.

Any story that makes you think, is a story worth reading.