The Sacrifice

Best-selling author Joyce Carol Oates blends sexual violence racism brutality and power in her latest incendiary novel. When a fourteen-year-old girl is the alleged victim of a terrible act of racial violence the incident shocks and galvanises her community exacerbating the racial tension that has been simmering in this New Jersey town for decades. Unfolding in a chorus of multiracial voices - from the police to the media to the victim and her family - which gather to reach a tense crescendo at the novel's climax THE SACRIFICE offers a shocking new understanding of power and oppression innocence and guilt truth and sensationalism justice and retribution - and the primal decisions we make to protect those we love. A chilling exploration of complex social political and moral themes THE SACRIFICE is a major work of fiction from one of our most revered literary masters.