And not just because music therapy is involved! It’s beautifully written, fast-paced, and makes you think. I don’t want to include any spoilers, so I’ll leave you with this: read the book. Zoe faced many of the same struggles that we as music therapists do, including having to explain what she does repeatedly and having to stand up for music therapy as an evidence-based treatment modality. Many of the sessions she led in the book sounded similar to the kinds of things I do in my own sessions, although she worked with a wider range of populations than I. It was so much fun to listen to the descriptions of her music therapy sessions - I kept forgetting I was reading a mainstream novel! I felt like I knew her, and the same went for the other characters. Zoe, the main character who is a music therapist, came alive for me after just a chapter or two. As with all of her other books, there are emotional highs and lows, twists and turns, and my favorite aspect of her writing - wonderful character development. Jodi Picoult tackles several big issues, including infertility and same-sex marriage. Sing You Home is not just about music therapy, to be sure. In her nineteenth novel, Sing You Home, from 2011, Jodi Picoult focuses her story on a bisexual woman who is battling for her right to use the frozen embryos she and her ex-husband created while being married. It’s safe to say that I enjoyed it, considering I finished the book in just a few days. So of course when the book came out, I made a mad dash to my computer to download the audio version and started listening right away. Why? Because the protagonist is a music therapist! That doesn’t happen very often (in fact, I only know of one other book where that is the case), which is why it has caused such a stir. There’s been a lot of buzz about this book in the music therapy world for the last few months.

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