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Picoult Songs of the Humpback Whales brings her considerable talents tothis contemporary story of a young woman in search of her identity. Abandonedby her mother when she was five years old Paige OToole has been left withpainful doubts about her selfworth. She leaves her Chicago home for CambridgeMass. at 18 to fulfill herself as an artist but must work in a diner becauseshe cant afford art school. When she marries Harvard medical student NicholasPrescott his parents disown him disapproving of their Irish Catholicdaughterinlaw. Again Paige is forced to sideline her creative needs and workas a waitress in order to support Nicholas until he is able to establish hiscareer as a cardiac surgeon. Paige is soon overwhelmed by the demands ofNicholass socially sophisticated world and after the birth of their son Maxshe becomes emotionally and physically exhausted. Unable to communicate herterrors about herself to Nicholas she leaves him to search for her mother whomay hold the answers to her life. Told in flashbacks this is a realistic storyof childhood and adolescence the demands of motherhood the hard paths ofpersonal growth and the generosity of spirit required by love. Picoultsimagery is startling and brilliant her characters move credibly through thisaffecting drama. «
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