
Sing You Home
Jodi Picoult
Published 2011
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