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Harvesting the Heart : A Novel by Picoult, Jodi is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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From Publishers Weekly Picoult ( Songs of the Humpback Whales ) brings her considerable talents to this contemporary story of a young woman in search of her identity. Abandoned by her mother when she was five years old, Paige O'Toole has been left with painful doubts about her self-worth. She leaves her Chicago home for Cambridge, Mass., at 18 to fulfill herself as an artist, but must work in a diner because she can't afford art school. When she marries Harvard medical student Nicholas Prescott, his parents disown him, disapproving of their Irish Catholic daughter-in-law. Again Paige is forced to sideline her creative needs and work as a waitress in order to support Nicholas until he is able to establish his career as a cardiac surgeon. Paige is soon overwhelmed by the demands of Nicholas's socially sophisticated world, and after the birth of their son, Max, she becomes emotionally and physically exhausted. Unable to communicate her terrors about herself to Nicholas, she leaves him to search for her mother, who may hold the answers to her life. Told in flashbacks, this is a realistic story of childhood and adolescence, the demands of motherhood, the hard paths of personal growth a

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Author

Picoult, Jodi

Publisher

Penguin Books Ltd

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9781101042441

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.59 / 5 (35,472 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14