Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult

Harvesting the Heart by Jodi PicoultPaige has only a few vivid memories of her mother, who abandoned her at five years old. Now, having left her father behind in Chicago for dreams of art school and marriage to an ambitious young doctor, she finds herself with a child of her own. But her mother's absence and shameful memories of her past force her to doubt whether she could ever be capable of bringing joy and meaning into the life of her child, gifts her own mother never gave.

Brenda's mother deserted her

A Brewing StormSeveral others are interested in his success too: his children

takes up a theme ranging from the attainment of spiritual bliss to karma and rebirth

with a new afterword by the author

Forced to disguise herself as a man

a Christian missionary who entered a World Brotherhood deep in Asia

Based on natural laws that govern all of creation

which no-one dares visit and some say are enchanted

reached the the summit of the remote Siula Grande in June 1995

Dear Ijeawele goes right to the heart of sexual politics in the twenty-first century

and bogus theories of Indianness will take root in the soil of the subcontinent

with the triumph of Brexit and election of Donald Trump