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Ebook About From the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Small Great Things and My Sister's Keeper, a novel exploring the story of a young woman overcome by the demands of having a family.Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her at five years old. 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. 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.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. 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. “A brilliant, moving examination of motherhood, brimming with detail and emotion.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch “Jodi Picoult explores the fragile ground of ambivalent motherhood in her lush second novel. This story belongs to… the lucky reader.” —The New York Times Book ReviewBook Harvesting the Heart: A Novel Review :
I purchased this recently on Bookbub for a steep discount, but the time it took to read this never ending novel was not worth it. Never before had I gotten over the 90% point in my Kindle and felt the desire to put it down and never pick it up again. I actually started skimming. It was way too long. It went on and on and on, an endless depressing slog. But that was far from its only issues. There will be spoilers after this point, so you may want to stop reading. Paige, an eighteen year old woman from the other side of the tracks in Chicago, runs away to Boston to escape the fact that she'd just had an abortion. She is unable to face her father and lover in the wake of this traumatic event. And since her mother left when she was five, never to be seen again, running away comes naturally to her. In Boston, she meets Nicholas, and marries him a short time later, causing him to be all but disowned from his rich Boston Brahmin family. Although she had aspirations of art school to develop her talents, she puts it all aside to work two jobs to put Nicholas through medical school. Once he becomes a cardiologist, she accidentally becomes pregnant which basically means her own career and dreams will never come true, since Nicholas wants her to be a stay at home mother. Following in her mother's footsteps, she bolts, leaving Nicholas to deal with their three month old son despite his extremely hectic schedule. She finds her mother with the help of a private detective, while meanwhile Nicholas reconciles with his own parents so they can help care for Max, the baby. So far so good. This story kept me riveted so far. Then it fell apart. Paige decides she has loved Nicholas and Max all along and her real role is to be a wife and mother. (GAG. GAG. REALLY? She doesn't get to have a life of her own after all? She's just going to be stand in the wings being her husband's cheerleader)???? Even worse, she returns to her family only to discover Nicholas vehemently will not take her back. I mean, who can blame him? She just took off with no warning, no discussion, leaving him with a baby he had no clue how to care for. Paige has decided they're meant to be together and she loves him. SO SHE STARTS STALKING HIM. Yes, stalking. First she sleeps on the front lawn until Nicholas's controlling parents decide to let her stay with them against their son's wishes because they've had a completely inexplicable makes-no-sense change of heart with regards to her. Then she follows him around. She sneaks into the hospital and follows him around there, even though he's a cardiologist working on frail, sick people and her presence could be disruptive and distract him, resulting in people dying. She becomes a volunteer at the hospital and specifically requests to work with him so he can't get away from her. He is trying to do his job, which is saving lives, while his crazy stalker wife is popping up in patient's rooms. She starts drawing pictures of the patients and Nicholas and taping it to his office door, and instead of barring this crazy woman from the hospital, the administrators decide to make a gallery of her work. So you know, her dream of being an artist comes true despite never being able to live the life she wanted. GAG. I found the book difficult to read after the stalking started. I'm a feminist, and I think equality means both sexes being held to the same standard. Any estranged husband who stalked his wife the way Paige does Nicholas would be in jail with a restraining order. This behavior is not normal. Piccoult tries to paint her as a sympathetic character-I saw someone who deserted their family without a word of warning and then stalked and harassed her husband when he wouldn't take her back. Not romantic. Not cute. A pattern of unstable, crazy behavior. It disturbs me that this is being passed off as a love story. Clearly someone who is as impulsive and out-of-control as Paige is depicted is not going to magically get better. There will be more desertions, more crazy behavior. She is not normal. And Nicholas is not going to suddenly stop being a workaholic who sees his wife and son as little more than props. The happy ending is not realistic. This is a doomed couple, and it would have been a better story if the author had the courage to say so. This was published in 1995. Had I read it then, I probably would have had a very different reaction. Like I say in my title, this work didn't age well. Society has drastically changed in the last twenty-four years. Oh my! This is a tear-jerker! I love a book where I learn something new and this book provided that opportunity. The leading female character is an artist--untrained, purely gifted and passionate about her work. The leading male character is a budding cardiacthoracic surgeon very passionate about his work. She is working as a waitress and he is a Harvard student when they meet, fall in love, and marry. When his family disowns him because he is marrying a waitress, she becomes the support to get him through medical school and into his residency. To do that, she must take a second job and sacrifice her art and her hopes of going to school herself. But, she does it. They live in Cambridge not too far from his very wealthy parents--mother a professional photographer with a fabulous reputation and father a physician himself. Their struggle is so real that I found myself exhausted from following his days--12 to 15 hours long--and her tiring work at two jobs, keeping house, and having a hot meal ready for him when he finally shows up. Then, the inevitable: they become pregnant--not planned! Therein comes the real novel. Her struggles with the pregnancy without him to depend upon are spellbinding. The infant with its colic, crying, whining,and constant hunger wears her out. At length, she makes one tiny mistake and the baby falls off of the sofa. That stuns her and infuriates him. Then the real action begins. I will warn you, that you will be angry at times--so much so that you will want to put the book down, but will be unable to do so. Then you will want to hit someone. Finally, you will be so upset that you want to yell at them. And, just that quickly comes resolution. You really must read this book. You will learn so much about heart surgery that you will want to become a donor. You will learn so much about drawing that you will want to try it yourself. You will be better for having read this book. It is Picoult at her finest! 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