![]() ![]() She becomes friendly with Vanessa, a school guidance counselor who had recommended a patient to Zoe, a music therapist. While Max tries to find his way through religion, Zoe begins to tread a very different path. "It couldn't have been more transparent for me if the answers had been tattooed on my face," he says of his sudden religious awakening. Max resists entreaties to join until he has a drunken-driving accident and mistakenly thinks he has struck his ex-wife. But they are also members of the uber-conservative Eternal Glory Church. ![]() His brother, Reid, and his wife are struggling to have children of their own. Max heads to his brother's house to dry out and try to pick up the pieces of his life. Of course, that proves to be the nut of Picoult's story. Neither party has much money, so their divorce is a simple one - with no lawyers on either side. Max, who has struggled with alcoholism for years, walks out and tells Zoe he wants a divorce. ![]() When their latest round of in vitro fertilization ends with their son's stillbirth, the marriage ends. This time, Picoult introduces us to Zoe and Max, a couple who have spent many years and thousands of dollars in their battle with infertility. Jodi Picoult has evolved into the "issues" writer for popular fiction, and she tackles another thorny one in Sing You Home, her latest tale of a family tragedy. ![]()
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