Or, as much as Truman Capote, Charles Dickens, and Haruki Murakami know about women and Patricia Highsmith, Carson McCullers, and Margaret Atwood know about men. Picoult knows as much about lesbians as Anne Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain, knows about gay men.
I mean, there’s even a trailer! Then, I got huffy: What does she know about being gay in today’s world? About lesbians? How can she exploit a hot-button issue just to get attention and sell books? Then, I had a glass of wine. My initial reaction was to groan inwardly. Are embryos people or property? What challenges do same-sex couples face when it comes to marriage and adoption? What happens when religion and sexual orientation – two issues that are supposed to be justice-blind – enter the courtroom? And most importantly, what constitutes a “traditional family” in today’s day and age?” “SING YOU HOME explores what it means to be gay in today’s world, and how reproductive science has outstripped the legal system.
She’s tackled amnesia, autism, murder, and abuse in her 17 novels so really, what else is there? Lesbians! Here’s an excerpt from the synopsis on her website:
I shouldn’t have been surprised to discover that lesbians feature in Jodi Picoult’s forthcoming novel SING YOU HOME (Atria, March 1, 2011).
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