Hollow Bones Hardcover by Jodi Picoult

Product Details

• Publisher: Random House Canada (2026-09-15)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 464 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781039010666
• Item Weight: 703.08 grams
• Dimensions: 24.18 x 15.95 x 3.56 cm

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of By Any Other Name comes a riveting novel about the risks we take to protect the ones we love in a world where crisis is always just around the corner.

On September 11, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was only two months old, her mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never came home. Her father and the stepmother who raised her couldn’t have loved her more, but she still grew up with a healthy dread of disasters.

Now an adult, Molly runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness, mapping out ways to save lives during storms, epidemics, and airplane crashes. She and her husband, Jesse—a police polygraph expert with his own history of crisis—have found a love that is a solace in a dangerous world. But then the unexpected upends their new marriage, leading them both to question everything they thought they knew.

Moving between past and present, Hollow Bones is an epic story of the lies we tell ourselves as we write the narratives of our lives, the plans we design to protect ourselves at the worst moments, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters.

About the Author

JODI PICOULT is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of 29 novels, with 40 million copies sold worldwide. Her most recent bestseller is By Any Other Name, and her last thirteen books have debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. Five of her novels have been made into movies. With her daughter Samantha van Leer, she has co-authored two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page; a musical adaptation of Between the Lines recently debuted Off-Broadway. Picoult is also the co-librettist for the musicals Breathe and The Book Thief. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband.