![]() This time around, her heroine is a shy, melancholy woman named Zoe Baxter. What you don’t have, unfortunately, is the sense of authenticity and intelligence that Picoult has brought to some of her other, much better novels such as “ House Rules” and “Change of Heart.” Throw in a climax in which an army of born-again Christians is pitted against a lesbian married couple in the requisite courtroom scene, and you’ve got the perfect easy reading for a mental-health day. Virtually each and every new paragraph brings revelations about infertility, cancer, sexual awakening, divorce, infidelity, custody fights and child molestation. “ Sing You Home” is chockablock full of the formulaic twists that have made women’s weepies so derided-yet-irresistible both onscreen and in print. This is the Jodi Picoult novel to reach for only when those sneering smarties are out of eyeshot and you just can’t wait another year or so for the next, possibly really good Jodi Picoult novel to come along. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is not the Jodi Picoult novel to convert those people in your life who think that Jodi Picoult novels are basically Lifetime Channel movies broken up by chapters instead of commercial breaks. ![]()
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