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[[File:Jodi Picoult as the 2013 Harry Middleton Lecturer DIG13478-016.jpg|thumb|350px|Jodi Picoult in 2013]]
[[Jodi Picoult]] is an American author, whose books tend towards family drama and relationships, though [[He Also Did|she also did]] a stint on ''[[Wonder Woman]]'' at one point. Three of her books have been adapted into [[Lifetime Movie of the Week|Lifetime movies]], while a fourth, ''[[My
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Of all sorts. A particularly favoured type is the parent of the [[Littlest Cancer Patient]] / [[Ill Girl]] who considers themselves an exemplary parent because of their many sacrifices for their child... but completely fails to notice that they neglect (and, in ''[[My
* [[All Take and No Give]]: Most of the mothers of an [[Ill Girl]] (or Boy) see themselves as constant "givers". Often, their motivation turns out to be rather more selfish than they would ever admit (see the [[My
▲* [[Abusive Parents]]: Of all sorts. A particularly favoured type is the parent of the [[Littlest Cancer Patient]] / [[Ill Girl]] who considers themselves an exemplary parent because of their many sacrifices for their child... but completely fails to notice that they neglect (and, in ''[[My Sisters Keeper]]'', '''exploit''') the healthy sibling so badly that it borders on or becomes abuse.
▲* [[All Take and No Give]]: Most of the mothers of an [[Ill Girl]] (or Boy) see themselves as constant "givers". Often, their motivation turns out to be rather more selfish than they would ever admit (see the [[My Sisters Keeper]]'s entry on [[Parental Favoritism]], or the entry for [[The Caretaker]] below).
* [[Because You Can Cope]]: The excuse given to the healthy siblings of ill children.
* [[Billy Needs an Organ]]: Kate, in ''My Sister's Keeper'' and Claire Nealon in ''Change Of Heart''.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Basically Peter's whole life in ''Nineteen Minutes''.
* [[Can't Get Away
** [[Handle
* [[The Caretaker]]: Emma, of her autistic son Jacob, in ''[[House Rules (
** Interestingly, all three of the above are the narcissistic variants of The Caretaker. A good example is Emma from ''[[House Rules (
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: The pond at the O'Keefe's house in ''[[Handle
* [[Continuity Nod]]: A couple of her characters are featured prominently in multiple books, and a few others are mentioned in passing.
* [[Debate and Switch]]: Particularly ''[[My
* [[Diabolus Ex Machina]]: ''[[My
* [[Disappeared Dad]]: Several, a few examples being Zoe's father in ''Sing You Home'' and Josie's father in ''Nineteen Minutes''.
* [[Double Meaning Title]]: Several; for example, ''Change Of Heart'' referring both to the heart transplant and the back-and-forth as several characters try to weigh up the emotional dilemmas.
* [[Easily Forgiven]]: In ''Harvesting The Heart'', Paige O'Toole {{spoiler|leaves her husband Nicholas for 3 months, then stalks him for a month or two}}, but Nicholas still takes her back (possibly; the ending leaves some room for interpretation).
** You could argue that Charlotte's family forgives her rather easily in ''[[Handle
** In ''Plain Truth'', after winning Katie's case, lawyer Ellie lets it slide when {{spoiler|she finds out Katie's mother either committed infanticide or tampered with the scene of the death so that it was ambiguous what really happened, risking Katie's imprisonment for the murder.}}
* [[Flower Motifs]]: ''Mercy'' uses these time to time unsurprising considering one of the main characters owns a flower shop.
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* [[Hot for Student]]: Laura Stone is with one of her students the night her daughter is date raped in ''The Tenth Circle''.
** In ''Salem Falls'', the inverse appears with a student crushing on her teacher. The teacher in question is accused and even convicted of having had an affair with her, though nothing actually eventuated.
* [[Ill Girl]]: Kate from ''[[My
* [[Informed Ability]]: The father's "ambitious" and "brilliant" comics in ''The Tenth Circle''.
* [[Insufferable Genius]]: Jacob in ''[[House Rules (
* [[Isolation Despondency]]: In ''Nineteen Minutes'', Peter is forbidden to contact Josie Cormier after they're found playing with guns.
* [[Ivy League]]: Princeton class of 1987.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|In ''Perfect Match'', Nina gets away with murdering Father Szyszynski, the man accused of molesting her son, and Caleb gets away with murdering Father Gwynne, the man who actually did it.}}
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: Sean and Charlotte have a ''very'' theatrical reconciliation in the middle of the courtroom in ''[[Handle
* [[Littlest Cancer Patient]]: In ''My Sister's Keeper'', Kate, who has had cancer since the age of 4, in her mother Sara's flashbacks and in ''[[Handle
* [[Living Emotional Crutch]]: Jesse [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] Anna's role in the family as this, in ''[[My
* [[Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane]]: Apparently messianic acts done by/happened to Shay Bourne in ''Change of Heart''. {{spoiler|Some of them are explained away as being definitely mundane, but it remains unclear whether all are. The ending involves Claire performing a similarly messianic act after the heart transplant.}}
* [[Mercy Kill]]/[[I Cannot Self-Terminate]]: The main plot of ''Mercy'' is the trial of a man who mercy killed his wife.
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* [[Multiple Narrative Modes]]: Uses this in several of her novels.
* [[No Bisexuals]]: In "[[Sing You Home]]" the main forty-something character is happily married to a man until he divorces her. She falls in love with a female friend and calls herself a lesbian, despite admitting she was in love with her husband. She never considers there might be a third option. The book focusses on gay rights and frequently compares gay and straight people, without mentioning that some people are neither. Most jarring is the school counsellor who talks about the number of kids at the school who are gay or lesbian. Clearly the high school is the one school in America without any bisexuals.
* [[No Ending]]: Partially. In ''[[House Rules (
* [[No Sympathy]]: Many of her characters (especially the mothers) are completely obsessed with the feelings and suffering of one specific person, but wall-bangingly oblivious to the pain of everyone else around them --even within their own families.
** Jacob's Asperger's makes him a more obviously un-empathic character -- it's why he's suspected of murder in the first place.
* [[Only Sane Man]]: The fathers in ''[[My
* [[Parental Favouritism]]: Again, ''[[My
* {{spoiler|[[Parental Incest]]: Right at the end of ''Salem Falls''.}}
* [[Rape
** As well as in ''Vanishing Acts'' when Delia finds out her mother's lover {{spoiler|may have raped her, thus provoking her father to kidnap her.}}
* [[Ripped from the Headlines]]: ''[[My
* [[Shoot the Shaggy Dog]]: Anna's battle for medical emancipation in ''My Sister's Keeper'' is proven pointless when {{spoiler|she dies in a car accident and both her kidneys are harvested for her older sister}}.
** ''Handle With Care'' plays out almost exactly like this. {{spoiler|Well, I betrayed my best friend and ruined her reputation, my other daughter is now suffering from bulimia and cuts herself often due to the neglect...but at least I still have this check that will ensure that Willow will be able to live an almost-normal life! Oh wait, she drowned, which makes this check pretty much worthless. Damn.}}
* [[Suicide Pact]]: The plot of the aptly named ''[[The Pact]]''.
** [[Driven to Suicide]]
* [[Strictly Formula]]: All her books have the same (general) formula: People (usually centering on the woman) living a normal life (in some New England town), something big happens/happened to them (i.e. husband is cheating, child is arrested) and there ends up being a court case either involving family members (i.e a family member committed a crime) or involving family members suing each other. Usually the court case involves children or teens. Expect one child to be severely ill and wiser than their years. The parents will/already did forget about the other child, if there is one. It is often a [[Tear Jerker]], but is successful because of that (the judge/jury feels sorry for the defendant). Usually there is a [[Shocking Swerve]] near the end, and somebody dies. Glaring examples include ''[[My
* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]: There is a rare [[Inverted Trope|inverted]] version AND a regular version in ''[[Vanishing Acts]]'' involving the [[Two Guys and
* [[Walking Transplant]]: Anna of ''My Sister's Keeper'' was conceived as a bone marrow donor for her sister Kate.
* [[Why Did You Make Me Hit You?]]: Emma to Jacob, in ''[[House Rules (
* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: In ''Lone Wolf'', {{spoiler|the real reason Edward left home was his walking in on his father sleeping with a college student, apparently not for the first time.}}
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