![]() ![]() ![]() For without insight into the motives and convictions of characters on both sides of an issue, the novel will fall flat. In a country as polarized as this one, and for a Democrat as active as Picoult (who gives a lot of money to various causes and institutions), it's not always easy to make, say, the anti-abortion activist or the anti-gay marriage minister or the school board bureaucrat banning books into sympathetic characters. ![]() The closer she gets to real life, real people, real problems, the better the novel. The reader cannot help but be moved by the story of Zoe Baxter, a music therapist, and her attempt to. Picoult works hard to keep her characters from being straw men and women. Sing You Home: A Novel By Jodi Picoult Cover Image. She complicates already complicated dilemmas in her plots. Picoult is known for her ability to shed light on the issues affecting domestic life in America: divorce, overprotective parenting, childhood depression, families struggling with medical crises - what The New York Times once called "the literature of children in peril." In this novel she picks the issue of same-sex families and the emotional and legal issues surrounding fertility procedures, and explores it from several perspectives: legal, medical, religious, political. From 1 New York Timesbestselling author Jodi Picoult, this astonishing novel is another winner. ![]()
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