Harvesting the heart / Jodi Picoult.
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TextPublication details: Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2009Description: 453 p. ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781741757965 (pbk.)Subject(s): Domestic fiction | Motherhood -- Fiction | Psychological fiction, American | Domestic fiction, American | Motherhood | Mothers and daughters | Women | Mothers and daughters -- Fiction | Women -- United States -- Fiction | United States | Domestic fiction | Psychological fictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Fiction. | Domestic fiction. DDC classification: 813.54 Summary: Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who left when she was five. 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, makes her doubt both her maternal ability and her sense of self-worth. Out of Paige's struggle to find wholeness by searching for her mother and facing her own insecurities, Jodi Picoult crafts an absorbing novel peopled with richly drawn characters. Any mother or child cannot help but relate to the issues and emotions explored within this powerful and moving book.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult fiction | F PIC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | AL42000181102B |
Previously published: 2003.
Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who left when she was five. 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, makes her doubt both her maternal ability and her sense of self-worth. Out of Paige's struggle to find wholeness by searching for her mother and facing her own insecurities, Jodi Picoult crafts an absorbing novel peopled with richly drawn characters. Any mother or child cannot help but relate to the issues and emotions explored within this powerful and moving book.
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