Picoult was born and raised in Nesconset on Long Island in New York State when she was 13, her family moved to New Hampshire. Picoult currently has approximately 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Currently-lives in Hanover, New Hampshire.Education-B.A., Princeton University M.Ed., Harvard University.Where-Nesconset (Long Island), New York, USA.Out of Paige's struggle to find wholeness, Jodi Picoult crafts an absorbing novel peopled by richly drawn characters and explores issues and emotions readers can relate to. But her mother's absence, and shameful memories of her past, make her doubt both her maternal ability and her sense of self worth.
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.
Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who left when she was five. Written with astonishing clarity and evocative detail, convincing in its depiction of emotional pain, love, and vulnerability, Harvesting the Heart recalls the writing of Alice Hoffman and Sue Miller. Now this gifted young writer turns her considerable literary talents to the story of a young woman overcome by the demands of having a family. This story belongs to… the lucky reader.Picoult earned rave notices for her debut novel, Songs of the Humpback Whale.
“Jodi Picoult explores the fragile ground of ambivalent motherhood in her lush second novel. “A brilliant, moving examination of motherhood, brimming with detail and emotion.” -Richmond Times-Dispatch Out of Paige's 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. 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. But her mother's 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. From the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Leaving Time Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her at five years old.
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