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Jodi Picoult, the acclaimed author of multiple No. 1 New York Times bestsellers, will discuss her latest book, Hollow Bones, on Monday, Sept. 28, at Vanderbilt University. Picoult will be in conversation with a special guest beginning at 6:30 p.m. in the Commodore Ballroom at the Student Life Center, 310 25th Ave. S. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m.
The event is hosted by the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries and Dialogue Vanderbilt in collaboration with Parnassus Books.
Tickets for the talk are $37.50 each (plus Eventbrite fees) and include one general admission seat and a pre-signed copy of Hollow Bones, to be published by Penguin Random House on Sept. 15. There will be no signing line for book personalizations at this event; however, there will be a photo line with Picoult. Each ticket includes admission to the photo line and a professional photo with the author.
About the book
The latest from Picoult is a riveting novel about the risks we take to protect those we love in a world where crisis is always just around the corner.
On Sept. 11, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was only 2 months old, her mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never came home. Her father and the stepmother who raised her couldn’t have loved her more, but she still grew up with a healthy dread of disasters.
Now an adult, Molly runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness, mapping out ways to save lives during storms, epidemics and airplane crashes. She and her husband, Jesse—a police polygraph expert with his own history of crisis—have found a love that serves as solace in a dangerous world. But when the unexpected upends their new marriage, it leads them both to question everything they thought they knew.
Moving between past and present, Hollow Bones is an epic story of the lies we tell ourselves as we write our personal narratives, the plans we design to protect us at the worst moments, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters.
About the author
Picoult is the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of 30 novels, including By Any Other Name, Mad Honey (co-authored with Jennifer Finney Boylan), Wish You Were Here, The Book of Two Ways, A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Leaving Time and My Sister’s Keeper, and, with daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband.