Skip to main content
← All books
Cover of Sing You Home

Sing You Home

Jodi Picoult

Published 2011

Availabledomestic-fictionqueer-fiction

On the shelf and ready for a new home.

Content notes

Shared plainly so you can choose what’s right for you:

  • abortion
  • anxiety panic attacks
  • biphobia
  • depression
  • grief
  • homophobia
  • infertility
  • loss
  • miscarriage
  • religious bigotry
  • self harm
  • suicidal thoughts
  • suicide

Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to get pregnant, and after multiple miscarriages and infertility issues, it looks like her dream is about to come true – she is seven months pregnant. But a terrible turn of events leads to a nightmare – one that takes away the baby she has already fallen for; and breaks apart her marriage to Max. In the aftermath, she throws herself into her career as a music therapist – using music clinically to soothe burn victims in a hospital; to help Alzheimer’s patients connect with the present; to provide solace for hospice patients. When Vanessa – a guidance counselor -- asks her to work with a suicidal teen, their relationship moves from business to friendship and then, to Zoe’s surprise, blossoms into love. When Zoe allows herself to start thinking of having a family, again, she remembers that there are still frozen embryos that were never used by herself and Max. Meanwhile, Max has found peace at the bottom of a bottle – until he is redeemed by an evangelical church, whose charismatic pastor – Clive Lincoln – has vowed to fight the “homosexual agenda” that has threatened traditional family values in America. But this mission becomes personal for Max, when Zoe and her same-sex partner say they want permission to raise his unborn child.

Shelved under: general-fiction, fictional-lives, domestic-fiction, lesbian-literature

Donated by Beth

Want to borrow this one?

It’s free — sign in and it’s yours to reserve.