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Sing You Home

por Jodi Picoult

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A stillborn baby ends Max and Zoe's marriage. Max leaves Zoe and turns to drinking. Zoe falls in love with a female school counselor, Vanessa. Max finds help for his drinking problem through his brother's church. Vanessa and Zoe get married. Vanessa offers to carry one of Zoe and Max's fertilized embryos. Zoe goes to Max to get permission to release the embryos to her but Max's new found religious fervor leads him to sue Zoe for custody.… (más)
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I've read a number of Jodi Picoult's books and remain a big fan. She always takes on current and controversial issues. This time around it's abortion coupled with gay & lesbian rights. As usual, she pulls no punches making for a really fast and compelling read. But after reading several of Picoult's books I'm beginning to realize they are quite formulaic. Yes, she takes on lots of different topics but the novels all seem to have the same form and pattern, and as a result have become fairly predicable. In her next work I'd like to see Jodi break from her usual mode and experiment with something different. Her characters always grow and develop and I'd like to see her writing do the same. ( )
  kevinkevbo | Jul 14, 2023 |
I just finished this book about a half hour ago. I haven’t read something that caused me to feel so many emotions in a really long time. I’m honestly still kind of reeling from the whole thing – the emotional roller coaster, and the happy ending has had me smiling since I finished it.

The story is told through three points of view: Zoe, Max, and Vanessa. Zoe is a music therapist who has been married to Max for ten years, and has wanted a baby since she was a child. Max is a former alcoholic, a surfer dude who owns a landscaping company. Vanessa is a school counselor who knows Zoe because Zoe sometimes works at the school with teenagers. After their third miscarriage, Max asks Zoe for a divorce, stating that he no longer wants a baby like Zoe does. A few months later, Zoe has married Vanessa, and they’re living happily and in love together. Seeing as Zoe and Max were trying to become pregnant using IVF treatment, Zoe still has 3 frozen embryos left over from her last cycle. She asks Max permission to use them, so that Vanessa, can carry her child to term, but Max takes her to court – family court, over property law – because he’s now a born again Christian who refuses to have his children raised in a ‘sinful household’.

This is a story told in 2011, a story that honestly feels so real to read. The case is very believable and also echoes something that has happened in the past. Every person I’ve told the plot to told me that they’ve heard of something similar happening, but couldn’t pinpoint exactly. This just adds to the validity of the feeling behind the whole story – Zoe and Vanessa could be any LGBT couple that we know fighting for their right to exist equally in today’s society. While the world has made leaps and bounds since 2011 – including the USA – there are still states, countries, situations that echo what happened to them.

The book made me feel so many emotions – happiness, laughter, anger, and sadness. There are so many beautiful instances in the novel as a whole that just made me sit back and absorb just how amazing Picoult’s writing style is. She evokes so many emotions in me in this book – I found myself literally laughing out loud as I read some parts, and actively seething with rage at others (I had to restrain myself from throwing the book across the room because I couldn’t physically strangle Pastor Clive).

Seriously, this book is amazing. I’ve not read something so evocative in a really long time, and something that actually felt like it was happening to me personally. The characters have such a distinct and beautiful range of voices, the story is well paced and even the side characters are worth investing in. I’m such an advocate for LGBT rights (as anybody who knows me personally knows), but it’s not just that that made me love the book. It’s how Picoult is able to give you both sides of the story in a very impartial way: the story of the ones who are persecuted, and the ones who think they’re being persecuted, but are just assholes.

I can assure you though, it has a happy ending, and even the ‘villains’ get redemption this time.

Final rating: 6/5. ( )
  viiemzee | Feb 20, 2023 |
Max and Zoe Baxter, married nine years, have struggled to have a baby. After suffering several miscarriages and a stillbirth after several rounds of IVF, Max has finally had enough and seeks a divorce. Zoe is devastated. Max moves in with his brother, and Zoe eventually becomes close to her friend Vanessa. What wasn't discussed in the divorce settlement was what would happen to the three remaining frozen embryos that Max and Zoe left at the fertility clinic. Who do they belong to? And who should control what happens to them when both Zoe and Max decide they want them?

I keep thinking Jodi Picoult will one day run out of controversial topics to write about, but so far that hasn't happened. This was another good example of presenting both sides of the story, and illustrating that not everything is black and white. You've got homosexuality, the Evangelical church, divorce rights, frozen embryos, some teenage depression, and what it means to be a good parent. And of course a courtroom drama to help decide who's right and who's wrong, when of course it's never that easy. I enjoyed this, with the exception of a couple things. While I realize Evangelicals and a fair amount of other Christians do come across the way they are portrayed in this book, I think Picoult lends a bad name to Christianity in general. Not all Christians are like that, and I think it's important to remember that. Secondly, I read the audiobook, which has some songs interspersed between chapters, with lyrics written by Jodi Picoult and the songs composed and performed by a friend of hers. These were meant to add to the story (esp. in light of the character of Zoe being a music therapist), but I found them distracting and not particularly enjoyable. The lyrics were okay I guess, but the music and voice were not so appealing to me. I think I could've done without them altogether. ( )
  indygo88 | Apr 12, 2022 |
I started reading this book and finished it back in March but the quarantine hit and I just haven’t had the headspace to do in-depth reviews on books. It’s all I can do to even read a book right now during COVID. The next few book reviews aren’t going to be much but I’m at least documenting that I read it.

Published in 2011 this is another one of Jodi’s that hits on a hot and much debated topic; same-sex marriages and having children and how that mixes with Christianity. The story engaged me from the beginning, all the way to the words on the last page but there were many times I was getting angry at what the characters were or were not doing. The real life examples used made it even more believable. And as always, she makes you question your own thoughts and opinions.

The book ended with a big cliff hanger though that I didn’t like. Closure works for me and this book doesn’t have it on all the side story lines.

One of the more interesting things about the book was that it had an accompanying soundtrack and a YouTube book trailer. I thought both were horrible but you may think differently.

There is also a book group discussion guide to prompt some questions to think about from the publisher. ( )
  WellReadSoutherner | Apr 6, 2022 |
Zoe Baxter probeert al tien jaar zwanger te worden. Net als het ernaar uitziet dat haar droom in vervulling zal gaan, stort haar wereld in. Haar man verlaat haar en Zoe wijdt zich aan haar carrière als muziektherapeut. Wanneer ze een baan accepteert bij schooldecaan Vanessa Shaw groeit hun zakelijke relatie uit tot een liefdesverhouding. Na verloop van tijd willen Zoe en Vanessa een gezin stichten, gebruikmakend van de ingevroren embryos waar Zoe en haar ex Max nog over beschikken.
  Lin456 | Oct 21, 2020 |
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Where to begin? This book is full of so much emotion that it was hard to not feel swayed one way or another. As someone that works for an Evangenical church, I found this book very hard to digest but not because of the 'anti-Christian' context, because of the 'Christian' context. I guess I am one that falls outside the box when it comes to religion. Believing that a person has a right to choose how they live their lives without it affecting my day-to-day life.

Having also gone through minor infertility issues myself, I found Jodi Picoult's account of the feelings and emotions involved with each failed cycle to be bang on. Understanding the devastation that parents/partners go through is so hard to describe and she did it beautifully.

While I will never be able to fully wrap myself around the 'same-sex' issues (because I haven't dealt with them first or really, second, hand), Sing You Home, has made me realize that there are people out there who struggle each and every day just to get by in a world that is unaccepting, a world that judges/hates/bullys, a world that is cruel. I hope that this book hits home in some of those 'unaccepting' people and makes them realize that it really isn't about them... it's about us.

Overall, this book was wonderfully written and hit home on each and every basis of the story. Never going to far one way or the other and showing each side of the 'story' fairly and accurately (sadly). Another great book by a great author!!
 
Picoult, who's created a cottage industry out of family melodrama and medical controversies, has crafted another winner in this story about music therapist Zoe Baxter and her decade-long struggle to become a mother....Picoult cleverly examines the modern world of reproductive science, how best to nurture a child and what, exactly, being a family means.
 

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A stillborn baby ends Max and Zoe's marriage. Max leaves Zoe and turns to drinking. Zoe falls in love with a female school counselor, Vanessa. Max finds help for his drinking problem through his brother's church. Vanessa and Zoe get married. Vanessa offers to carry one of Zoe and Max's fertilized embryos. Zoe goes to Max to get permission to release the embryos to her but Max's new found religious fervor leads him to sue Zoe for custody.

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