In the aftermath of a series of personal tragedies, Zoe throws herself into her career as a music therapist. A dirge that marked the years she spent trying to get pregnant.įor better or for worse, music is the language of memory. A dance beat that makes her think of using a fake ID to slip into a nightclub.
There’s the melody that reminds her of the summer she spent rubbing baby oil on her stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. Music has set the tone for most of Zoe Baxter’s life. (Mar.From the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author whom USA TODAY calls a “master of the page-turner,” comes the spectacular story of a woman’s complex quest to form a family.Įvery life has a soundtrack. Picoult abandons her usual efforts to present an equal view of both sides of an issue-Max is a pitiful right-wing puppet Zoe, Vanessa, and their attorney are saintly-but her devoted fans will nevertheless find everything they expect: big emotion, diligent research, legal conflict, and a few twists at the end. Max's discomfort with Zoe's same-sex relationship and his desire to repay Reid and Liddy, who have their own fertility problems, mean a legal battle looms. Max, meanwhile, converts to an evangelical brand of Christianity that pits him against Zoe when she asks Max for permission to use their frozen embryos. After their divorce, Max moves in with his brother and sister-in-law, Reid and Liddy, and backslides into self-destructive drinking, while Zoe devotes herself to music therapy (the book is accompanied by a CD in Zoe's voice, with awkward lyrics by Picoult) and develops a friendship with guidance counselor Vanessa that eventually turns into love and marriage.
Max and Zoe's marriage, stressed by infertility problems and miscarriages, is finally destroyed by a stillborn baby. Picoult's overstuffed latest (after House Rules) is stretched just to the breaking point.
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