Prologue, Paige Summary

Harvesting the Heart by Jodi Picoult is a touching story about a woman who has never known a mother and therefore has no reason to believe she can be a successful mother herself. Paige has run away from one romance and the possibility of parenthood into a marriage to a successful surgeon that leaves her often dealing with the stress of life on her own. When Paige becomes a mother, she does not measure up to her own expectations and runs away as her own mother did. However, Paige soon realizes she is not like her mother and that love is the only thing that truly matters. With Harvesting the Heart Jodi Picoult delivers a novel that is not only heartwarming, but deals with doubts every mother experiences portraying one woman's successful triumph over those doubts.

Paige is outside her house...