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* GriefInducedSplit: Max and Zoe are driven to divorce largely because of their fertility struggles and multiple miscarriages. They had spent ten years trying unsuccessfully to have a child, compounded by the fact Zoe has polycystic ovary syndrome while the men in Max's family have a genetic condition that makes miscarriages more likely (his brother and sister-in-law face similar issues). After several miscarriages, Zoe manages to conceive and carry a seemingly healthy pregnancy thanks to in-vitro fertilisation, but devastatingly miscarries in her seventh month, at her baby shower no less. Max and Zoe's marriage quickly breaks down, with Max being unable to bear the thought of going through it all again while Zoe still desperately wants a child.
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* HasTwoMommies: Zoe and Vanessa are hoping for this. [[spoiler:Max gives them the embryos, so their child, Samantha, indeed has two mommies.]]
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''Sing You Home'' is a 2011 book by Creator/JodiPicoult. Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to get pregnant, and after multiple miscarriages and infertility issues, it looks like her dream is about to come true: She is seven months pregnant. But a terrible turn of events leads to a nightmare--one that takes away the baby for whom she has already fallen; and breaks apart her marriage to Max. In the aftermath, she throws herself into her career as a music therapist.
When Vanessa, a guidance counselor, asks Zoe to work with a suicidal teen, their relationship moves from business to friendship and then, to Zoe’s surprise, blossoms into love. When Zoe allows herself to start thinking of having a family, again, she remembers that there are still frozen embryos that were never used by her and Max. Meanwhile, Max has found peace at the bottom of a bottle–-until he is redeemed by an evangelical church, whose charismatic pastor, Clive Lincoln, has vowed to fight the “homosexual agenda” that has threatened traditional family values in America. But this mission becomes personal for Max, when Zoe and her same-sex partner say they want permission to raise his unborn child. This leads to a court case to decide who gets the embryos.
When Vanessa, a guidance counselor, asks Zoe to work with a suicidal teen, their relationship moves from business to friendship and then, to Zoe’s surprise, blossoms into love. When Zoe allows herself to start thinking of having a family, again, she remembers that there are still frozen embryos that were never used by her and Max. Meanwhile, Max has found peace at the bottom of a bottle–-until he is redeemed by an evangelical church, whose charismatic pastor, Clive Lincoln, has vowed to fight the “homosexual agenda” that has threatened traditional family values in America. But this mission becomes personal for Max, when Zoe and her same-sex partner say they want permission to raise his unborn child. This leads to a court case to decide who gets the embryos.
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''Sing You Home'' is a 2011 book by Creator/JodiPicoult. Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to get pregnant, and after multiple miscarriages and infertility issues, it looks like her dream is about to come true: She is seven months pregnant. But a terrible turn of events leads to a nightmare--one nightmare -- one that takes away the baby for whom she has already fallen; and breaks apart her marriage to Max. In the aftermath, she throws herself into her career as a music therapist.
When Vanessa, a guidance counselor, asks Zoe to work with a suicidal teen, their relationship moves from business to friendship and then, to Zoe’s surprise, blossoms into love. When Zoe allows herself to start thinking of having a family, again, she remembers that there are still frozen embryos that were never used by her and Max. Meanwhile, Max has found peace at the bottom of abottle–-until bottle – until he is redeemed by an evangelical church, whose charismatic pastor, Clive Lincoln, has vowed to fight the “homosexual agenda” that has threatened traditional family values in America. But this mission becomes personal for Max, when Zoe and her same-sex partner say they want permission to raise his unborn child. This leads to a court case to decide who gets the embryos.
When Vanessa, a guidance counselor, asks Zoe to work with a suicidal teen, their relationship moves from business to friendship and then, to Zoe’s surprise, blossoms into love. When Zoe allows herself to start thinking of having a family, again, she remembers that there are still frozen embryos that were never used by her and Max. Meanwhile, Max has found peace at the bottom of a
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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Max gets with Liddy during the trial, and she apparently ends up leaving Reid for him.]]
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''Sing You Home'' is a 2011 book by JodiPicoult.Creator/JodiPicoult. Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to get pregnant, and after multiple miscarriages and infertility issues, it looks like her dream is about to come true: She is seven months pregnant. But a terrible turn of events leads to a nightmare--one that takes away the baby for whom she has already fallen; and breaks apart her marriage to Max. In the aftermath, she throws herself into her career as a music therapist.
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* YourCheatingHeart: [[spoiler: Max gets with Liddy during the trial, and she apparently ends up leaving Reid for him.]]
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* SiblingTriangle: Max falls for Liddy, his husband's wife. [[spoiler: They hook up during the trial, but the main plot ends rather abruptly before giving much more detail. In the epilogue, we find out that Max and Liddy are apparently getting married, but that's about it.]]
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* SiblingTriangle: Max falls for Liddy, his husband's brother's wife. [[spoiler: They hook up during the trial, but the main plot ends rather abruptly before giving much more detail. In the epilogue, we find out that Max and Liddy are apparently getting married, but that's about it.]]
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* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[spoiler: Zoe is revealed to have had an abortion when she was nineteen, and feels incredibly guilty about it.]]
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* SiblingTriangle: Max falls for Liddy, his husband's wife. [[spoiler: They hook up during the trial, but the main plot ends rather abruptly before giving much more detail. In the epilogue, we find out that Max and Liddy are apparently getting married, but that's about it.]]
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''Sing You Home'' is a 2011 book by JodiPicoult. Zoe Baxter has spent ten years trying to get pregnant, and after multiple miscarriages and infertility issues, it looks like her dream is about to come true: She is seven months pregnant. But a terrible turn of events leads to a nightmare--one that takes away the baby for whom she has already fallen; and breaks apart her marriage to Max. In the aftermath, she throws herself into her career as a music therapist.
When Vanessa, a guidance counselor, asks Zoe to work with a suicidal teen, their relationship moves from business to friendship and then, to Zoe’s surprise, blossoms into love. When Zoe allows herself to start thinking of having a family, again, she remembers that there are still frozen embryos that were never used by her and Max. Meanwhile, Max has found peace at the bottom of a bottle–-until he is redeemed by an evangelical church, whose charismatic pastor, Clive Lincoln, has vowed to fight the “homosexual agenda” that has threatened traditional family values in America. But this mission becomes personal for Max, when Zoe and her same-sex partner say they want permission to raise his unborn child. This leads to a court case to decide who gets the embryos.
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* ActivistFundamentalistAntics: The whole trial arguably starts because of this. Pastor Clive claims that no child should have to live with lesbian parents, so he encourages Max to sue Zoe and Vanessa.
* TheAlcoholic: Max. Though clean at the beginning of the story, he relapses after divorcing Zoe.
* AllGaysArePedophiles: [[spoiler: Zoe is accused of molesting one of her clients, Lucy, who just so happens to be Pastor Clive's stepdaughter.]] Vanessa states that this trope is why she keeps her door open when counseling students, so that nobody will have any reason to suspect her.
* AllLesbiansWantKids: Played with. Both Vanessa and Zoe want kids, but Zoe desperately wanted kids long before Vanessa came along.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Implied in the epilogue, told from the viewpoint of [[spoiler:their child, Samantha]].
* ClosetKey: Zoe for Vanessa and vice versa.
* DisappearedDad: Zoe's father died when she was eight.
* EmoTeen: Lucy.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[spoiler: Zoe is revealed to have had an abortion when she was nineteen, and feels incredibly guilty about it.]]
* HasTwoMommies: Zoe and Vanessa are hoping for this. [[spoiler:Max gives them the embryos, so their child, Samantha, indeed has two mommies.]]
* LastHetRomance: Max and Zoe.
* LawOfInverseFertility: Zoe desperately wants a child, but just can't carry a pregnancy to term.
* LipstickLesbian: Zoe and Vanessa.
* LoveTriangle: Max is in love with his sister-in-law Liddy. [[spoiler: He ends up winning said triangle, and in the epilogue it is mentioned that he and Liddy are soon to be married.]]
* NoBisexuals[=/=]IfItsYouItsOkay: Zoe calls herself a lesbian despite the fact that she admits being attracted to and in love with men. Her partner, Vanessa, is a school counselor and frequently counsels LGBT teens, but never mentions any bisexuals.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The novel discusses gay rights, in-vitro fertilization, abortion, evangelicals, alcoholism, atheism...
* VirtualSoundtrack: There is a 10-song CD with songs by Jodi Picoult's friend Ellen Wilber, along with recommendations on when to play the songs.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The plot builds up for all of the book, and then is resolved in more or less a single chapter in the end, leaving quite a few plot threads unresolved. No word on what happens with [[spoiler: Lucy making a false rape accusation, or Liddy apparently divorcing her husband and marrying his brother, or much of anything else.]] Quite unsatisfying, really.
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When Vanessa, a guidance counselor, asks Zoe to work with a suicidal teen, their relationship moves from business to friendship and then, to Zoe’s surprise, blossoms into love. When Zoe allows herself to start thinking of having a family, again, she remembers that there are still frozen embryos that were never used by her and Max. Meanwhile, Max has found peace at the bottom of a bottle–-until he is redeemed by an evangelical church, whose charismatic pastor, Clive Lincoln, has vowed to fight the “homosexual agenda” that has threatened traditional family values in America. But this mission becomes personal for Max, when Zoe and her same-sex partner say they want permission to raise his unborn child. This leads to a court case to decide who gets the embryos.
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!!Tropes:
* ActivistFundamentalistAntics: The whole trial arguably starts because of this. Pastor Clive claims that no child should have to live with lesbian parents, so he encourages Max to sue Zoe and Vanessa.
* TheAlcoholic: Max. Though clean at the beginning of the story, he relapses after divorcing Zoe.
* AllGaysArePedophiles: [[spoiler: Zoe is accused of molesting one of her clients, Lucy, who just so happens to be Pastor Clive's stepdaughter.]] Vanessa states that this trope is why she keeps her door open when counseling students, so that nobody will have any reason to suspect her.
* AllLesbiansWantKids: Played with. Both Vanessa and Zoe want kids, but Zoe desperately wanted kids long before Vanessa came along.
* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter: Implied in the epilogue, told from the viewpoint of [[spoiler:their child, Samantha]].
* ClosetKey: Zoe for Vanessa and vice versa.
* DisappearedDad: Zoe's father died when she was eight.
* EmoTeen: Lucy.
* GoodGirlsAvoidAbortion: [[spoiler: Zoe is revealed to have had an abortion when she was nineteen, and feels incredibly guilty about it.]]
* HasTwoMommies: Zoe and Vanessa are hoping for this. [[spoiler:Max gives them the embryos, so their child, Samantha, indeed has two mommies.]]
* LastHetRomance: Max and Zoe.
* LawOfInverseFertility: Zoe desperately wants a child, but just can't carry a pregnancy to term.
* LipstickLesbian: Zoe and Vanessa.
* LoveTriangle: Max is in love with his sister-in-law Liddy. [[spoiler: He ends up winning said triangle, and in the epilogue it is mentioned that he and Liddy are soon to be married.]]
* NoBisexuals[=/=]IfItsYouItsOkay: Zoe calls herself a lesbian despite the fact that she admits being attracted to and in love with men. Her partner, Vanessa, is a school counselor and frequently counsels LGBT teens, but never mentions any bisexuals.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The novel discusses gay rights, in-vitro fertilization, abortion, evangelicals, alcoholism, atheism...
* VirtualSoundtrack: There is a 10-song CD with songs by Jodi Picoult's friend Ellen Wilber, along with recommendations on when to play the songs.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The plot builds up for all of the book, and then is resolved in more or less a single chapter in the end, leaving quite a few plot threads unresolved. No word on what happens with [[spoiler: Lucy making a false rape accusation, or Liddy apparently divorcing her husband and marrying his brother, or much of anything else.]] Quite unsatisfying, really.
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