Hollow Bones by Jodi Picoult

Some stories arrive like a change in the weather. You feel them coming, and still, they take your breath away.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of By Any Other Name, Jodi Picoult delivers a riveting novel about the risks we take to protect the ones we love in a world where crisis is always just around the corner.

On September 11, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was only two months old, her mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never came home. Her father and the stepmother who raised her couldn’t have loved her more, but she still grew up with a healthy dread of disasters.

Now an adult, she runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness, mapping out ways to save lives during storms, epidemics, and airplane crashes. 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. Then the unexpected upends their new marriage, leading them both to question everything they thought they knew.

Moving between past and present, this is an epic story of the lies we tell ourselves as we write the narratives of our lives, the plans we design to protect ourselves in the worst moments, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters.

It’s a book made for lingering, for the kind of afternoon when the sea air turns cool and you’re glad to be tucked inside with a story that holds you close.

Pour a cup of tea. This new release hardcover is waiting on our shelves, just steps from the cove.

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