An Afternoon with Jodi Picoult

A discussion you won't want to miss with bestselling author Jodi Picoult and The Book Stall featuring her new book, "Hollow Bones."
About this Event

The Book Stall welcomes Jodi Picoult to The Skokie School Auditorium for a discussion featuring her new book, Hollow Bones. 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.

Tickets include a signed copy of the book (tip-ins) and a professional photo with the author. Please note, Ms. Picoult will not be personalizing copies at the event.

When Molly Fitzgerald was only two months old, her mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and never came home. Now an adult, she 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 tells 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.

Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of thirty novels, including By Any Other Name, Mad Honey (co-authored with Jennifer Finney Boylan), Wish You Were Here, The Book of Two Ways, A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, and My Sister’s Keeper, and, with daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. Her 30th novel, Hollow Bones, will publish on September 15, 2026. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband.