A HOT TAKE ON PERFECT MATCH - WHEN THE TRUTH HURTS MORE THAN THE LIFE

BY DEVYANI RAWAT [ BSC MATHEMATICS,SECOND YEAR ]

EDITED AND DESIGNED BY MEHAK KOUNDAL [ B.COM PROGRAM,FIRST YEAR ]

"Truth in Perfect Match doesn’t heal, it wrecks everything in its path.”

We grow up believing that truth is supposed to bring peace, that once you know it, you can finally breathe. But in Perfect Match, Jodi Picoult tears that illusion apart. The truth in this story doesn’t save Nina Frost or her family; it destroys the fragile balance they were barely holding onto. When Nina finds out what really happened to her son, it’s not a moment of closure , it’s the start of her unraveling. Everything she’s built her life around, the law, justice, her identity as a prosecutor, collapses under the weight of what she now knows. The woman who once believed in the system becomes the one standing on trial for defying it. That shift isn’t just plot; it’s emotional demolition.

And what’s worse is that the truth doesn’t spare anyone. Caleb is left watching the woman he loves disappear into anger and grief, powerless to fix what’s broken. Patrick’s truth, his trauma, becomes something that never leaves him, even when everyone else tries to move on. The truth doesn’t heal their wounds; it deepens them. And maybe that’s the point Picoult is making, that truth isn’t some clean, shining thing we find at the end of pain. It’s messy, cruel, and often unbearable. Sometimes it doesn’t set you free; it just burns everything you thought you knew, leaving you with nothing but ashes and the question of how to start again.