I was not actually expecting a court case in this one and my chief complaint here is that the court battles in her books – although always well told – are predictable. Picoult handles the infertility theme here with amazing grace and such emotion that let’s just say a couple of us in the recent on line book club revealed that we probably shouldn’t have been reading this book on the treadmill at the gym.
But issues of infertility, told with heartwrenching and great dramatic detail, drive larger rifts between husband and wife until they are no longer even wanting the same life goals. The main character is Zoe Baxter, a music therapist, married with a family on the way.
Sing You Home also has a couple of surprises which I will not give away so I save the good stuff for you. It has all the traditional Jodi Picoult elements: strong characters, ripped from the headlines type of plots, a court case, some grand philosphical battles, this time between church and state, gay rights, procreation as biology versus choice, as well as a small rumination on when life actually begins and a whole mashup of themes that drive you headlong towards the end of the book. Sing You Home is ultimately a book about love and family and the many different forms that takes. When twitter pal and fellow book lover Wanda over at asked if I’d like to participate in a Simon and Schuster twitter book club party I was wholeheartedly enthusiastic.
She is one of my favourite authors and the launch of a new book is always an occasion to celebrate. Anyone who knows anything about me at all is fully aware of how much I love Jodi Picoult’s novels.
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