![]() One day a disturbed nursing home resident whacks her on the head with a maraca in a desperate attempt to stop her singing Take Me Out to the Ball Game. She works as a music therapist, playing songs on her acoustic guitar to alleviate, or perhaps that should be exacerbate, the sufferings of dementia patients, burn victims and autistic children. When we meet her, she is almost 40 and has finally fallen pregnant with the help of an IVF program after years of trying to conceive with her husband, Max. ![]() The issue it explores, the conflict between advocates of gay rights and fundamentalist Christians, is topical and dramatised in a direct and unpretentious manner. Yes, it contains its full measure of shonky prose and clumsy dialogue, but so do many "literary" novels. And Sing You Home, Picoult's 18th novel in 19 years, is not without merit. It is all literature the only distinction that really matters is whether a book is good or bad, whether it is intelligent, absorbing and well-written. ![]() Picoult is right in the sense the distinction between literary and non-literary fiction is completely bogus. ![]()
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