Wish You Were Here

A Novel

Pages: 336
Published: 2021
Language: English

Diana O’Toole has her life perfectly planned out, from her career in the art world to her upcoming engagement on a trip to the Galápagos. When a global pandemic strands her alone on a remote island while her boyfriend stays behind in a New York hospital, she must rethink everything she thought she wanted. Isolated from her old life, she forms unexpected connections that force her to face hard truths about her future.

Prose complexity: 4/10

Emotional Reflective Thought-Provoking Hopeful

Unreliable Narrator Fish Out of Water Found Family

Contemporary Literature

Jodi Picoult

Jodi Picoult (born May 19, 1966, in Nesconset, New York) is an American novelist known for fiction that explores controversial social and ethical issues, including My Sister's Keeper, Nineteen Minutes, Small Great Things, and the more recent Mad Honey and By Any Other Name. She graduated from Princeton University with a degree in English and holds a master's degree in education from Harvard University. She lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with her husband and their three children.