Hollow Bones

THE DAZZLING NEW NOVEL, AND INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FROM THE WORLD'S FAVOURITE STORYTELLER 'Jodi Picoult is that rare, one-in-a-million writer whose books both squeeze your heart and expand your mind' EMILY HENRY 'Impressive, important, and fun to read' KIRKUS REVIEW, starred review 'A powerful and deeply affecting exploration of grief, loss, guilt, and enduring love' BOOKLIST, starred review I reach up and unravel my braid. When my hair is loose and whipping around my face, I take the red ribbon I've woven through it and press it just beneath my mother's etched name, underlining. She was here. She was mine. When Molly Fitzgerald was two months old, her mother went to a morning appointment in downtown New York. Like so many who left their homes on September 11th, 2001, Molly's mother never came home. Now Molly saves lives for a living, running a department for when disasters strike. Molly and her husband Jesse-a police polygraph expert with his own fractured family-have found a love that is a solace in a dangerous world. But then Molly's whole world is turned on its head. She's spent her life preparing for catastrophe. But nothing could prepare her when a disaster strikes too close to home. In this powerful novel, Jodi Picoult tells an epic story of the lies we tell ourselves, the plans we design to protect ourselves at the worst moments, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters. Readers across the globe are falling in love with HOLLOW BONES... 'Jodi is so masterful at making me feel all the things and making you truly think through every angle of something. I'm in awe' 'An emotional punch from the beginning, Picoult shows us all why she is the master of fiction' 'Yes!!! The Jodi I love is back!! I loved every word' 'One of my favorite Jodi Picoult books. It's emotional, thought-provoking, beautifully layered, and full of the twists and complicated family dynamics that make her books so hard to put down' 'My heart may never be the same after this book. Hollow Bones was devastating, thought-provoking, powerful, and incredibly emotional'