Harvesting the Heart by Picoult, Jodi

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling author of By Any Other Name, 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 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 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.

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 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.

"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 Book Review


Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 04/01/1995
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.25w x 1.17d
ISBN: 9780140230277
Age Range: 18-UP

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.1
Point Value: 25
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 45205 / Harvesting the Heart

About the Author
Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 28 novels, including Mad Honey, By Any Other Name, Wish You Were Here, The Book of Two Ways, A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, The Storyteller, Lone Wolf, Sing You Home, House Rules, Handle with Care, Change of Heart, and My Sister's Keeper, and, with daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. Picoult's books have been translated into thirty-four languages in thirty-five countries. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children.