Jodi Picoult: Hollow Bones

Join us for an evening with internationally bestselling author Jodi Picoult, in conversation about her epic and heart-wrenching new novel, Hollow Bones.

On September 11, 2001, two-month-old Molly Fitzgerald’s mother goes to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never comes home. She is raised by her father and new stepmother, but grows up with a healthy dread of disasters. She now runs the local Center for Emergency Preparedness and Response, mapping out plans to save lives in disasters. She and her husband Jesse – a police polygraph expert with his own history of crisis – have found a love that is a solace in a dangerous world. Until the unexpected upends their marriage, leading them to question everything they thought they knew…

Moving between past and present, Hollow Bones is a story of the lies we tell ourselves as we write the narratives of our lives, the risks we take to protect the ones we love in a world where crisis is always just around the corner, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters.

Jodi Picoult is the author of 30 novels, with 60 million copies sold worldwide. She has had 17 Sunday Times number one bestsellers. Five novels have been made into movies and Between The Lines (co-written with daughter Samantha van Leer) has been adapted as a musical. She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction, the Alex Award from the YA Library Services Association, and the NH Literary Award for Outstanding Literary Merit. She is also the co-librettist for the musicals Breathe and The Book Thief. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband.

There are two ticket options available. The Book & Ticket bundle includes a trade paperback of Hollow Bones.

Photo credit – Jesse Dittmar.

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