Harvesting The Heart

Harvesting The Heart by Jodi Picoult Paige has only a few
vivid memories of her mother who abandoned her at five
years old. Now having left her father behind in Chicago
for dreams of art school and marriage to an ambitious
young doctor she finds herself with a child of her own.
But her mothers absence and shameful memories of her past
force her to doubt whether she could ever be capable of
bringing joy and meaning into the life of her child gifts
her own mother never gave. Harvesting the Heart is written
with astonishing clarity and evocative detail convincing
in its depiction of emotional pain love and vulnerability
and recalls the writing of Alice Hoffman and Kristin
Hannah. Out of Paiges struggle to find wholeness Jodi
Picoult crafts an absorbing novel peopled by richly drawn
characters and explores motherhood with a power and depth
only she is capable of. “A brilliant moving examination of
motherhood brimming with detail and emotion.” —Richmond
Times-Dispatch “Jodi Picoult explores the fragile ground
of ambivalent motherhood in her lush second novel. This
story belongs to… the lucky reader.” —The New York Times
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