Jodi Picoult

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From mysteries to family sagas, Jodi Picoult doesn’t shy away from writing about controversial topics and the moral issues and choices affecting families and society in her novels. She tackles subjects such as abortion, the Holocaust, assisted suicide, race relations, LGBT rights, fertility issues, religion, and school shootings with a deft hand.

Many of Jodi’s characters reappear throughout her novels, sometimes as principal protagonists and sometimes in cameos. Some of these characters include Jordan McAfee, his son Thomas, and his wife, Selena, who appear in the novels The Pact, Salem Falls, Nineteen Minutes, and Mad Honey. Detective Patrick Ducharme is featured in Perfect Match and Nineteen Minutes. Frankie Martine, a character that first appears in Salem Falls, returns in Second Glance and Perfect Match. About revisiting her characters, Jodi says, “It’s always great fun to bring a character back because you get to catch up on his/her life; and you don’t have to reinvent the wheel—you already know how he speaks, acts, thinks.”

With each of her novels, readers enjoy her effortless writing style and her ability to create sympathy for characters caught up in fraught situations, as well as stories that linger in their hearts and minds.