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.
And it’s about what happens when the outside world brutally calls into question the very thing closest to our hearts: family. It’s about people wanting to do the right thing for the greater good, even as they work to fulfill their own personal desires and dreams. Sing You Home is about identity, love, marriage, and parenthood. When an unexpected friendship slowly blossoms into love, she makes plans for a new life, but to her shock and inevitable rage, some people-even those she loves and trusts most-don’t want that to happen. 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. 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.
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