Picoult's imagery is startling and brilliant her characters move credibly through this affecting drama. Told in flashbacks, this is a realistic story of childhood and adolescence, the demands of motherhood, the hard paths of personal growth and the generosity of spirit required by love. Unable to communicate her terrors about herself to Nicholas, she leaves him to search for her mother, who may hold the answers to her life. Paige is soon overwhelmed by the demands of Nicholas's socially sophisticated world, and after the birth of their son, Max, she becomes emotionally and physically exhausted. Again Paige is forced to sideline her creative needs and work as a waitress in order to support Nicholas until he is able to establish his career as a cardiac surgeon. Jodi Picoults Captivating Second Novel From the New York Times bestselling author of My Sisters Keeper, Lone Wolf, and the forthcoming The Storyteller.
When she marries Harvard medical student Nicholas Prescott, his parents disown him, disapproving of their Irish Catholic daughter-in-law. She leaves her Chicago home for Cambridge, Mass., at 18 to fulfill herself as an artist, but must work in a diner because she can't afford art school. Abandoned by her mother when she was five years old, Paige O'Toole has been left with painful doubts about her self-worth. Picoult writes with a fine touch, a sharp eye for detail, and a firm. 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.Picoult ( Songs of the Humpback Whales ) brings her considerable talents to this contemporary story of a young woman in search of her identity. Harvesting the Heart By: Jodi Picoult Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell Critic Reviews. Now, having left her father behind in Chicago for dreams of art school and marriage to an ambitious young doctor, she finds. 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.īut her mother's absence, and shameful memories of her past, make her doubt both her maternal ability and her sense of self worth. From the author of the 1 New York Times bestsellers Small Great Things and My Sister's Keeper, a novel exploring the story of a young woman overcome by the demands of having a family. Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who left when she was five. Overview: 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.
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