Sing You Home

A Novel

De: Jodi Picoult

Narrado por: Thérèse Plummer, Brian Hutchison, Mia Barrow, Michele O’Medlin

From the award-winning, number one New York Times best-selling author whom USA Today calls a “master of the page-turner” comes the spectacular story of a woman’s complex quest to form a family.

Every life has a soundtrack. All you have to do is listen.

Music has set the tone for most of Zoe Baxter’s life. There’s the melody that reminds her of the summer she spent rubbing baby oil on her stomach in pursuit of the perfect tan. A dance beat that makes her think of using a fake ID to slip into a nightclub. A dirge that marked the years she spent trying to get pregnant.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

In the aftermath of a series of personal tragedies, Zoe throws herself into her career as a music therapist. When an unexpected friendship slowly blossoms into love, she makes plans for a new life, but to her shock and inevitable rage, some people - even those she loves and trusts most - don’t want that to happen.

Sing You Home is about identity, love, marriage, and parenthood. It’s about people wanting to do the right thing for the greater good, even as they work to fulfill their own personal desires and dreams. And it’s about what happens when the outside world brutally calls into question the very thing closest to our hearts: family.

©2011 Jodi Picoult (P)2019 Simon & Schuster

Interesting topic

As a whole, I found the topics explored by the book interesting, and raised a lot of good questions. Also, the narrators made the story come alive and were pleasant to listen to. It was refreshing to be served an LGBT novel that wasn't all about sex or stereotypes, but I found it a little too flat, and the immense focus on the Bible, God and religion, even though I get why she's doing it, was a little off-putting for me personally. Still, it was an interesting story with a theme that's worthy of attention.

Engaging and entertaining

For the most part, I enjoy reading this author's work. She has a depth in her novels in relation to social norms and policies that touches on controversial topics. This author is direct, firm and diplomatic within the creation of her characters and creates a solid plot to keep the readers interest.

I enjoyed the complexity of the relationships for the most part. At times, the drama components of her characters life situations kicks up a bit more than I feel is necessary but it is entertaining.

Narration method is adequate. I usually enjoy one narrator and this one has multiple narrators. It was not problematic, just added the drama piece.

Great book!

I loved everything about this book, other than the songs, but that didn't take away from the book.

beautiful but skip the intro songs

another phenomenal book by JP... hard to put down... the songs at the beginning were grating though, so i just skipped them

Very moving story

I think it’s a very moving story. The end is refreshing and I had not want it any other way. I gave it 4 stars for performance because I did not care for the songs.

Why?

Whoever they got to sing was seriously tone deaf. What was the purpose of that? It was terrible. Not my favorite Picoult book. Was totally predictable

good

the book is so good, but I really do not care much for the songs mixed in with the reading..just seems so very unnecessary for the story.

For Gay Rights - Against Songs in Audiobooks

The story is compelling, and I enjoyed the book, to the extent that it made me think, and stirred strong emotions.

I enjoy music, but would prefer that complete songs not be included in audiobooks. I did as suggested by one review I read, and when those songs started, I fast forwarded through about 3 minutes, and resumed listening.

The songs are the worst part

There are songs every few chapters and I could not personally stand to listen them. The voice singing was like nails on a chalkboard to me.
The storyline was decent but definitely could have used some hurrying along. It was a very slow going book.. I was disappointed in the ending as it was very predictable but it also left quite a few unanswered questions.
Overall, this took me a long time to get through and it wasn't like most of her other books I've breezed through.

Provocative story

This was a great story with believable narrators. The only thing I didn’t care for was the folksy music played at the beginning of each track. I fast forwarded through those.