Told from the viewpoints of Zoe, Vanessa, and Max, Sing You Home is an insider's look at the controversy that surrounds gay couples and same-sex parenting. Zoe, Vanessa, and Max then go to court to settle the custody battle over the embryos. However, Max refuses to give up the embryos because he doesn't want his biological children to be raised by a same-sex couple. As Zoe and Vanessa's friendship grows stronger, Zoe realizes that she loves Vanessa, and they decide to become married.Īfter their wedding, Vanessa offers to become pregnant using Zoe's leftover embryos from her previous attempts at conception. While working with a suicidal teen, Zoe becomes good friends with Vanessa Shaw, the high school's homosexual counselor. Meanwhile, Zoe, a musical therapist, dives into work after a hysterectomy leaves her unable to conceive indefinitely. A former alcoholic, Max looks to the bottle for comfort, but soon experiences an epiphany in which God speaks to him, and influences Max to become a pushy born-again Christian and bible-thumping evangelist. Unable to handle the stress of undergoing yet another in vitro fertilization process with his wife, Max files for divorce from Zoe. Unfortunately, Zoe experiences complications during her baby shower and is rushed to the hospital, where she gives birth to a stillborn son. Finally, after years of fertility treatments, Zoe is 7 months pregnant and just weeks away from giving birth. In Sing You Home, Picoult addresses the controversial topics of gay marriage and same-sex parenting.Ĥ0-year-old Zoe Baxter and her husband Max have been trying to have a baby for years, but both husband and wife have fertility problems that have prevented them from conceiving. 'Home' is one of the keywords for the month of April. I chose to read Sing You Home because it qualifies for the April monthly keyword challenge at Bookmark to Blog. I've always been a huge fan of Jodi Picoult, and I've read all the books she's ever published.

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