My Sister's Keeper
Jodi Picoult, 2007
An exploration of ethics and sacrifice when a family's life is determined by a biological lottery.
Jodi Picoult
Picoult takes ordinary families and puts a hard moral question at the centre of them, then lets everyone involved speak in their own voice, so you feel the cost from several sides at once. Start with My Sister's Keeper, where a family's choices about one child's body pull the others apart, or Mad Honey, which sets a mother's love against what a town decides to believe.
Feels like family, tenderness and morality.
Start with My Sister's Keeper.
The novel explores complex ethical dilemmas surrounding medical decisions, often utilizing a multi-perspective narrative structure to challenge the reader's own assumptions.
A sudden crack in the veneer of politeness. A shock you didn't see coming.
My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snapbackward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it’s faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered. Books by Jodi Picoult
Mad Honey
Jodi Picoult, 2022
A beekeeper, her hockey-captain son, and the charge that splits a small New Hampshire town — and everything a mother will not let herself see.
The Pact
Jodi Picoult, 1998
A small-town Maine novel about first love so certain it becomes dangerous, and the families who have to live with it.
The Storyteller
Jodi Picoult, 2013
Jodi Picoult braids a modern moral dilemma with a historical story of survival, asking who gets to tell—and be believed about—the past.
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