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Popular author Picoult tackles the controversial topic of gay rights in her latest
powerful tale. When music therapist Zoe Baxter.s latest pregnancy ends in a stillbirth,
her husband Max decides he can.t handle any more heartbreak and leaves her. As she picks
up the pieces of her life, Zoe is surprised to find herself falling for a school
counselor who happens to be a woman. While Zoe is finding happiness with Vanessa, Max
falls off the wagon and is helped by a pastor from his brother.s evangelical church.
Vanessa and Zoe wed in Massachusetts, and Vanessa offers to carry one of the fertilized
embryos Zoe and Max stored. Excited by the prospect of being a mother, Zoe goes to Max
to get him to release the embryos to her and is shocked when he instead sues her for
custody of them, backed by his church. Told from the perspectives of all three major
characters, Picoult.s gripping novel explores all sides of the hot-button issue and
offers a CD of folk songs that reflect Zoe.s feelings throughout the novel. HIGH-DEMAND
BACKSTORY: The always topical Picoult plans a multimedia tour to more than two dozen
cities with Ellen Wilber, who will perform the songs she and Picoult wrote together.

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