Jodi Picoult

This episode features one of Elin and Tim’s favorite writers and friends, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Mad Honey, Wish You Were Here, and My Sister’s Keeper , Jodi Picoult! Jodi discusses writing from both perspectives of a controversial issue, her twist endings and intense research process, and co-writing with Samantha Van Leer and Jennifer Finney Boylan. Elin and Jodi dig into their decisions around narrative voice in their stories and their relationships and online interactions with readers, and the three discuss current book banning in America. It’s another chat where you feel like you’re having coffee with your three best friends!

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Jodi Picoult Reading List:
Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult
The Pact by Jodi Picoult
Second Glance by Jodi Picoult
My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult
Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult
Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult
Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
A Spark of Light by Jodi Picoult
The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult
Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
Wish You Were Here by Jodi Picoult
Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult

What else are we reading in this episode:
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang
I Have Some Questions for You by Rebecca Makkai
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugendies
How to Give the Wrong Impression by Katherine Heiny
Summerland by Elin Hilderbrand
The Five-Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand
Happiness Falls by Angie Kim
Bride by Ali Hazelwood
Speech Team by Tim Murphy
The Breakaway by Jennifer Weiner
Pete and Alice in Maine by Caitlin Shetterly
Bee Sting by Paul Murray
Holly by Stephen King

Other authors mentioned:
Mary Morris, Jennifer Finney Boylan, and Samantha Van Leer.

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