Sing you Home

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Call Number: Adult Book / Fiction / General / Picoult, Jodi, Fiction / Picoult, Jodi
On Shelf At: Malletts Creek Branch

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Some copies include compact disc.
Compact disc. Sing you home -- The house on Hope Street -- Refugee -- The last -- Marry me -- Faith -- The mermaid -- Ordinary life -- Where you are -- Sammy's song.
Max and Zoe's marriage, stressed by infertility problems and miscarriages, is finally destroyed by a stillborn baby. 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 turns into love and marriage. 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.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Sing You Home submitted by slsk on July 13, 2011, 4:39pm Not one of my favorite Jodi Picoult novels, but still a good read. I had a hard time relating (and ultimately liking) any of the characters in this one, for some reason. But as always, the dilemma is intriguing and I couldn't wait to find out how it was resolved!

Sing You Home submitted by Jacy on June 18, 2014, 4:41pm This is a standard Picoult book. Actually, I think it may have been slightly substandard. The drama was all a bit too contrived, particularly with Max and Liddy. Also, every time Max has one drink something horrible happens! He never starts drinking again just a little here and there until he realizes what he's doing. I swear if he had so much as used mouthwash, he was going to slice off his finger or something else tragic would have occurred. There are plenty of complaints that can be made about this book (the cop out ending for example) but at the end of the day, the book is super easy to read and entertaining enough. Even with the cancer and infertility ad alcoholism, it isn't really a downer.

I also want to add, I read a couple reviews before this about how the book implies "all lesbians are awesome parents who poop rainbows" and "all religious people are zealots who want to steal babies and follow cult leaders". While Reid and Liddy aren't well developed at all, I never got the sense the book was saying they were fundamentally horrible human beings. Clyde maybe. The lawyer maybe. But the (small amount we saw of) the rest of the congregation? Just people looking for love and acceptance, the same as everyone else. And they found it.

Sing you home submitted by czadams on August 28, 2022, 9:20am I thought about becoming a music therapist because of this book! Seriously. The stories of how much music impacts her clients was soo moving.
I liked that there was a soundtrack as part of the book too.