Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoule
I am going to that part of PA next Thursday for a lunch and a play. The lunch will be great and the drive pleasurable. It is a Senior bus trip.
I finished this book today and really couldn’t put it down. I have read about four of Picoult’s books and do think that Plain Truth is the best so far but the others are good IMHO.
This is a story of a woman whose Mother left her when she was five years old and she was raised by her father. Because she never knew why her mother left she doubted that she could be a good mother to her child. She has few memories of her mother. She marries medical student and supports him until he becomes a heart transplant surgeon. When her baby is three months old she leaves as her mother did and does find her mother. There is much more to this story and it is a page turner. There are graphic descriptions of heart transplant surgery and other medical procedures that may bother some. I found them interesting.  It doesn’t help the relationship with her educated husband that he comes from an upper crust old money family and she doesn’t even have a HS diploma. It causes problems when they have to mingle with the other Dr.s.
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