Sing You Home by Jodi Picoult
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This book deals with tough contemporary issues such as parenthood, family, infertility, and homosexuality.

Max and Zoe are married for nine years. They both have fertility issues and turn to invitro to try and have a baby. They struggle through miscarriages and a near term still birth. Their marriage crumbles.

After their divorce, Max loses himself in alcoholism and Zoe throws herself into her job as a music therapist.

They both get a second chance at life--Max gets religion and joins his brother's church--Zoe finds love with Vanessa. Zoe and Vanessa marry and want to have a family. Zoe has frozen embryos left from her relationship with Max. She goes to the fertility clinic to see if she and Vanessa can have them. The clinic says Max has to agree. Max wants to give the embryos to his brother and sister-in-law since they are also having fertility issues.

What follows is the legal tangle of who the eggs belong to, whether a gay couple would make good parents, media frenzy, religious attitudes toward fertility and homosexuality, and the impact of all that on the relationships between Max, Zoe, Vanessa, Max's brother Reed and sister-in-law Liddy.


This book was borrowed from the Edward Ward Carmack public library.

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