as is Picoult's signature style, the reader is left just as torn as the characters over the best solution. Picoult tackles this sensitive subject with her usual flawless research and convincing characters. ( Adapted from a 2003 Barnes and Noble interview and from Wikipedia. They have three children and a handful of pets. Picoult and her husband Timothy live in Hanover, New Hampshire. Her legions of readers have loved and rewarded her for that compassion-and her novels have been consistent bestsellers. She approaches painful topics with sympathy-and her characters with respect-while shining a light on individual struggles. Nor has Picoult ever shied from tackling difficult, controversial issues: school shooting, domestic violence, sexual abuse, teen suicide, and racism. Disoriented by some accident of chance, they stumble, whirl, and attempt to regain a footing in what was once their calm, ordered world. She excels at portraying ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary circumstances. Within the cozy surroundings of family and friends, Picoult weaves complex webs of relationships that strain, even tear apart, under stress. Ironically, it is small-town life that has ended up providing the settings for Picoult's novels. All told, Picoult has more than 20 books to her name.Īt an earlier time in her life, Picoult believed the tranquility of family life in small-town New England offered little fodder for writing the truly interesting stuff of fiction happened elsewhere. Two more children followed, as did a string of bestseller novels. Song of the Humpbacked Whale, her literary debut, came out in 1992. In 1989, Picoult married Timothy Warren Van Leer, whom she met in college, and while pregnant with their first child, wrote her first book. To pay the bills, after graduation she worked at a variety of jobs, including copy writing and editing textbooks she even taught eighth-grade English and attained a Masters in Education from Harvard University. While still in college-she studied writing at Princeton University-Picoult published two short stories in Seventeen magazine. Even as a child, Picoult had a penchant for writing stories: she wrote her first story- "The Lobster Which Misunderstood"-when she was five. Picoult was born and raised in Nesconset on Long Island in New York State when she was 13, her family moved to New Hampshire. Picoult currently has approximately 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Currently-lives in Hanover, New Hampshire.Education-B.A., Princeton University M.Ed., Harvard University.Where-Nesconset (Long Island), New York, USA.What happens when the hope that should sustain a family is the very thing tearing it apart? ( From the publisher.) Though there’s no easy answer, questions abound: What secrets have Edward and his sister kept from each other? What hidden motives inform their need to let their father die.or to try to keep him alive? What would Luke himself want? How can any family member make such a decision in the face of guilt, pain, or both? And most importantly, to what extent have they all forgotten what a wolf never forgets: that each member of a pack needs the others, and that sometimes survival means sacrifice?Īnother tour de force by Picoult, Lone Wolf brilliantly describes the nature of a family: the love, protection, and strength it can offer-and the price we might have to pay for those gifts. He and Cara have to decide their father’s fate together. Suddenly everything changes: Edward must return home to face the father he walked out on at age eighteen. Then comes a frantic phone call: Luke has been gravely injured in a car accident with Edward’s younger sister, Cara. Edward understands that some things cannot be fixed, though memories of his domineering father still inflict pain. His son, Edward, twenty-four, fled six years ago, leaving behind a shattered relationship with his father. His wife, Georgie, has left him, finally giving up on their lonely marriage. In many ways, Luke understands wolf dynamics better than those of his own family. He has written about them, studied their habits intensively, and even lived with them for extended periods of time. Luke Warren has spent his life researching wolves. Dying apart from its family, it stays proud and true to its nature. In the wild, when a wolf knows its time is over, when it knows it is of no more use to its pack, it may sometimes choose to slip away. The #1 internationally bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells an unforgettable story about family secrets, love, and letting go. A life hanging in the balance.a family torn apart.
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