“Jodi Picoult explores the fragile ground of ambivalent motherhood in her lush second novel. With Harvesting the Heart Jodi Picoult has delivered a novel that is not only heartwarming, but also deals with doubts every mother has experienced. “A brilliant, moving examination of motherhood, brimming with detail and emotion.” - Richmond Times-Dispatch Picoult ( Songs of the Humpback Whales ) brings her considerable talents to this contemporary story of a young woman in search of her identity. Vassiliades TA Jr: Technical aids to performing thoracoscopic robotically-assisted internal mammary artery harvesting. Out of Paige's struggle to find wholeness, Jodi Picoult crafts an absorbing novel peopled by richly drawn characters, and explores motherhood with a power and depth only she is capable of. Harvesting the Heart is written with astonishing clarity and evocative detail, convincing in its depiction of emotional pain, love. Harvesting the Heart is written with astonishing clarity and evocative detail, convincing in its depiction of emotional pain, love, and vulnerability, and recalls the writing of Alice Hoffman and Kristin Hannah.

But her mother's absence and shameful memories of her past force her to doubt whether she could ever be capable of bringing joy and meaning into the life of her child, gifts her own mother never gave. Paige is on a quest to find answers as to why her mother abandoned her only child. Told in flashbacks, this is a realistic story of childhood and adolescence, the demands of motherhood, the hard paths of personal growth and the generosity of. Now, having left her father behind in Chicago for dreams of art school and marriage to an ambitious young doctor, she finds herself with a child of her own.

From the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of Leaving Time Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her at five years old.

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