Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult
Author of My Sister’s Keeper
Speaks To Carpe Articulum Literary Review About This Issue’s Theme of Longing:
Longing is the foundation of the human condition — don’t we all want what we can’t have? Whether it’s the greed that is the cornerstone of a villain or the unrequited love of a star-crossed couple, the hole that a reader sees gnawing away at a character echoes personally.
The great irony, of course, is that we expect that missing piece to be the thing that brings happiness — and it rarely is. For many of my characters, this learning curve comprises the character arc — and the final revelation that they were wrong all along is part of the book’s twist at the end. Like Dorothy in THE WIZARD OF OZ, we usually have the tools we need for happiness right in our hands, but are too blind to see it.
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SEE A FULL INTERVIEW WITH MS. PICOULT IN THE CURRENT ISSUE OF THE MAGAZINE
