Hands figure significantly and symbolicly in Picture Perfect. Moving from the sweltering African grasslands to the desolate plains of the reservation to the claustrophobic glitz of Hollywood, Jodi Picoult's story is one rich in detail, breadth, and emotion. In order to free them both, Cassie holds a press conference and tells the world the secret about Alex it never knew- and never would have believed. When Cassie agrees to return to Hollywood with her son, it is with a conditional promise from Alex. Lies beget lies, and soon his career is rocked by scandal. Nominated for Best Actor for his most recent film, he can no longer conceal from the press the fact that his wife is gone. Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, Alex's life is falling apart.
Cassie knows of the fear and self-loathing Alex harbors- and of his hard-won transformation to the skilled actor he has become. She weighs the ominous pattern of her marriage against her compassion for her husband. Safe in South Dakota, Cassie contemplates her future. Out of loyalty he cannot fully understand, Will spirits Cassie away to stay with his parents on the reservation where he grew up- and to which he never wanted to return- for the duration of her pregancy. Trying to piece together her past, she runs to the other person she trusts to keep her hidden- Will Flying Horse, the policeman who had initially harbored her. When she finds a positive pregnancy test in her bathroom, she is flooded with dark memories. She senses there is something troubling and wild that would alter the picture of her perfect marriage. Yet as Cassie settles into her glamour-filled life, uneasiness nags at her. As Alex helps Cassie become reaccustomed to her fairy-tale existence, fragments of memory return: the whirlwind romance on location in Africa, her major anthropological discovery, the trajectory of Alex's career.
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