Picoult writes with a fine touch, a sharp eye for detail, and a firm. Usually I would happy about a couple staying together in the end but not this time. Harvesting the Heart By: Jodi Picoult Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell Critic Reviews. Yeah it’s great that they made it through hard times but Nicholas is too fucking selfish. I am all for love and a good marriage but they didn’t have that. I hate that Astrid asked her to draw a self portrait and instead she drew Nicholas.

I want to like Paige and for the most part I do but I hate the way she idolizes Nicholas. Jodi Picoult explores the fragile ground of ambivalent motherhood in this lush second novel New York Daily News Richmond.
He wasn’t even mad about the abortion he was mad that he wasn’t the only man that she had slept with despite the fact that he has fucked more women than he can count. What pissed me off most was his reaction to her abortion, “It might have been her body but it was their shared past.” NO. New York Times Book Review Paige has only a few vivid memories. She’s physically and emotionally exhausted I mean she just had a baby, did we forget? Also, at this point he has hardly spent any time with Max but still had the nerve to leave Paige alone so he could sleep at the hospital. Jodi Picoult explores the fragile ground of ambivalent motherhood in her lush second novel. He complains that she doesn’t make his lunch after having Max but 1. At no point during this book has he been a likable character. He’s a pompous, privileged piece of shit and I wish that someone had given him a reality check. This isn’t even really a review but more of a rant.

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. 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. Paige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her at five years old.

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