Description

Rating: ****

Tags: Fiction, General, Literary, Psychological, Family Life, Domestic Fiction, Divorced people, Frozen human embryos, Human reproductive technology - Law and legislation, Human reproductive technology - Religious aspects, Lesbian couples, Lesbian, Music therapists, Lang:en

Summary

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Popular author Picoult tackles the controversial topic of gay rights in her latest powerful tale. When music therapist Zoe Baxter’s latest pregnancy ends in a stillbirth, her husband Max decides he can’t handle any more heartbreak and leaves her. As she picks up the pieces of her life, Zoe is surprised to find herself falling for a school counselor who happens to be a woman. While Zoe is finding happiness with Vanessa, Max falls off the wagon and is helped by a pastor from his brother’s evangelical church. Vanessa and Zoe wed in Massachusetts, and Vanessa offers to carry one of the fertilized embryos Zoe and Max stored. Excited by the prospect of being a mother, Zoe goes to Max to get him to release the embryos to her and is shocked when he instead sues her for custody of them, backed by his church. Told from the perspectives of all three major characters, Picoult’s gripping novel explores all sides of the hot-button issue and offers a CD of folk songs that reflect Zoe’s feelings throughout the novel. HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: The always topical Picoult plans a multimedia tour to more than two dozen cities with Ellen Wilber, who will perform the songs she and Picoult wrote together. --Kristine Huntley

Review

“Powerful. . . Gripping.” —_Booklist_

“Sing You Home deftly personalizes the political, delivering a larger message of tolerance that's difficult to fault.” —_Entertainment Weekly_

“An immensely entertaining melodrama with crackerjack dialogue that kept me happily indoors for an entire weekend.” —_USA Today_

“[Jodi Picoult] has crafted another winner. . . Picoult cleverly examines the modern world of reproductive science, how best to nurture a child and what, exactly, being a family means.” —_People_

“Thouroughly satisfying. _Sing You Home truly sings.” —BookPage_

“Sing You Home is the book that we, as gay men and woman, will want to hand to our straight friends, neighbors, co-workers, and family members. I’m not saying Picoult is a savior for the gay movement, but she’s created a record of our time.” —_Edge _(Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, and Los Angeles)

“Picoult treats all sides of this complex morality tale with honesty and dignity, which is what readers have come to expect from her.” —_St. Louis Post-Dispatch_

“Determinedly life affirming, with designs on the heart.” —_Newark Star-Ledger_