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BOB ABERNETHY<\/strong>, anchor: This coming June Hollywood releases a major motion picture dealing with a difficult ethical issue \u2014 genetic engineering. It\u2019s based on one of the novels of Jodi Picoult, who creates bestsellers out of tough moral choices. Bob Faw has the story.<\/p>\n

BOB FAW<\/strong>: Squirreled away in her New Hampshire farmhouse and writing at a feverish pace, Jodi Picoult does more than churn out best-selling novels on gut-wrenching moral dilemmas. She also forces her readers to think, even squirm.<\/p>\n

JODI PICOULT<\/strong>: I\u2019m not going to tell a person how to think, don\u2019t believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don\u2019t be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let\u2019s see if you can still find the footing.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: She has done in each of her 16 books, which have sold over 15 million copies \u2014 some so provocative, with so many twists and turns, they\u2019ve been turned into films. Next month Hollywood releases her \u201cMy Sister\u2019s Keeper,\u201d which explores the implications of genetic engineering.<\/p>\n

\"\"(Video clip from \u201cMy Sister\u2019s Keeper\u201d)<\/em><\/p>\n

ANNA: Most babies are accidents. Not me. I was engineered \u2014 born to save my sister\u2019s life.<\/em><\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: What happens, Picoult asks, when the child conceived to help save her sister decides that she doesn\u2019t want to?<\/p>\n

(Video clip from \u201cMy Sister\u2019s Keeper\u201d):<\/em><\/p>\n

MOTHER: What\u2019s going on? Anna, you\u2019re suing us? <\/em><\/p>\n

ANNA: I don\u2019t want to do it anymore Mom. It\u2019s my body. I want to be able to make my own decisions on what to do with it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ms. PICOULT<\/strong>: You may read that book and say it is morally wrong to conceive a child to save the life of another sick child. But if I put you on, you know, underneath the microscope, if I point a finger at you and say you are in that situation, can you honestly tell me, as a parent, that you would not do anything you had to, to save the life of your child? I really defy you to be able to say that you would not do it, too.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Picoult chooses contemporary topics like that, often ripped from the headlines, for example, examining the death penalty in \u201cChange of Heart.\u201d After the tragedy at Columbine, she wrote \u201c19 Minutes,\u201d which focuses not only on bullying but on the moral dilemma of parents whose son has, as in Columbine, gunned down 10 of his classmates.<\/p>\n

Ms. PICOULT<\/strong>: Can you be a good parent and still wind up with a child that commits a horrific act? And if your child does that, how can you love a child that does that? If you\u2019re a good parent how can you not love him?<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: What has to resonate with you before you embark on a topic?<\/p>\n

\"\"Ms. PICOULT<\/strong>: It has to be something that I\u2019m usually worried about \u2014 something that keeps me up at night. It\u2019s the thing that\u2019s like a splinter in your brain that won\u2019t go away \u2014 that you keep circling back to, over and over. And I keep thinking about it and asking myself questions like what would you do in that situation, or what if this parameter had changed? And I keep thinking about that. I know it\u2019s going to be a great idea for a book.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: In \u201cThe Tenth Circle\u201d Picoult explores the moral choices facing a teenager living in a culture of sexuality and drugs. Her latest book, \u201cHandle with Care,\u201d which is already at the top of the charts, centers around a five-year-old girl, Willow, who has a severe disability.<\/p>\n

Ms. PICOULT<\/strong> (talking to audience): The family has found, like many other families who are struggling to raise a child with a disability, that money is a big problem, because there\u2019s not a lot out there in terms of insurance or funding, and that\u2019s sort of the situation that we walk into when \u201cHandle with Care\u201d opens. (Begins reading from novel): Pick 10 strangers and stick them in a room and ask them which one of us they feel sorrier for \u2014 you or me?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: The girl has osteogenesis imperfecta, leaving her with bones so brittle she will have thousands of breaks during her lifetime. To pay for her care, her mother files a wrongful birth suit against her obstetrician, who is also the mother\u2019s best friend.<\/p>\n

Ms. PICOULT<\/strong>: I think many of my books, including \u201cHandle with Care,\u201d including \u201cMy Sister\u2019s Keeper\u201d circle back to how far are we willing to go for the people we love? I think love changes the way we think. It\u2019s the thing that takes you out of what your normal set of beliefs would be.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>FAW<\/strong>: Picoult does extensive research for each book\u2014visiting the Rhode Island Crime Lab for an upcoming novel, spending time on death row for \u201cChange of Heart,\u201d or staying on an Amish farm for \u201cPlain Truth.\u201d What sets her apart isn\u2019t just the research and her painstaking attention to detail. What also sets her apart is her refusal to take the easy way out.<\/p>\n

This is from \u201cVanishing Acts,\u201d at the very end, the daughter (reading from book): \u201cMy mother and father are both right, and at the same time they are both wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms. PICOULT<\/strong>: I think that\u2019s totally possible, and I do believe very often the closer we are to a person who\u2019s causing us to take these actions, the blurrier that line gets for us.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: It\u2019s a willingness to grapple with all sides of a debate which has won her an almost cult-like following. Sally Crouch and her daughter, Beth, drove four hours to see Picoult at this Baltimore book signing.<\/p>\n

BETH CROUCH<\/strong>: Even though it seems like black and white, I think she writes it so you really don\u2019t know. She leaves it up to you to decide.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: It\u2019s a sentiment echoed by many of her readers.<\/p>\n

LEAH CARTER<\/strong>: I think she just keeps your mind open to everything. Like, you know, if you have an opinion about one topic, then all of sudden now you can see maybe somebody else\u2019s side of the story.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: And Picoult doesn\u2019t sugar-coat those issues. In her \u201cPlain Truth,\u201d for example, where an Amish teenager is charged with murdering her out-of-wedlock baby, an entire religious community is put on trial.<\/p>\n

(From novel \u201cPlain Truth\u201d): In fact, Katie Fitch is the first Amish person in this state to be charged with murder, ever. You know why? Because Amish people don\u2019t commit murder \u2014 ever.<\/em><\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Picoult\u2019s portrayal is harsh. Here the villain is none other than a devout Amish mother.<\/p>\n

\"post06-jodipicoult\"Ms. PICOULT<\/strong>: I think that what I did was strip away the rose-colored glasses, because we have so idealized their existence, their simplicity of life and, you know, their adherence to faith that we’re not seeing them very clearly. Their citizens run the gamut.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Religion, says Picoult, has brought comfort and misery. She does not affiliate herself with any formal religion.<\/p>\n

Ms. PICOULT<\/strong>: I do believe in God, though, and yet I totally support the fact that there are people who do not believe in God, and I think that if you are Catholic, that\u2019s great, and I think if you\u2019re Protestant, that\u2019s great, and if you\u2019re Jewish, that\u2019s great, and I firmly believe that there is just not one way to do it.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Even though she forces her readers to think about the unthinkable, Picoult says for herself she\u2019s never been happier in that New Hampshire home she shares with Delilah and Quigley, two miniature donkeys.<\/p>\n

Ms. PICOULT<\/strong>: Even though I don’t write about things that come from my life because I\u2019m \u2014 I\u2019m lucky, and I live in a great place with great kids and, you know, a great husband, I think you can find threads of me in the characters, so that\u2019s really what being a writer is, probably. It\u2019s being able to dilute something about you \u2014 just a tiny little dollop of it into, you know, the heart or the soul of different characters. You are always bleeding a little piece of yourself into everybody.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Although some people of faith would say there is always a right or wrong side, for Picoult that choice is not so clear and can be agonizing to make.<\/p>\n

\"post07-jodipicoult\"Ms. PICOULT<\/strong> (reading from book): \u201cHere are the things I know for sure. When you think you\u2019re right, you are most likely wrong.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: When you think you\u2019re right, you are most likely wrong.<\/p>\n

Ms. PICOULT<\/strong>: You might think you\u2019re on one side of it and find out you\u2019re actually on the other.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Agonizing choices in a confusing world \u2014 the ideal ingredients for a novelist and former teacher.<\/p>\n

Ms. PICOULT<\/strong>: It\u2019s certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time. If you can make them understand why someone with a differing opinion has that opinion and at least come to respect that opinion, I think you make the world a better place. I think I\u2019m still teaching. It\u2019s just a really big classroom.<\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: Jodi Picoult, delving into the moral complexities and ambiguities of modern life and helping her readers navigate where choices are rarely black and white, but what one of her characters calls \u201ca thousand shades of gray.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Video clip from \u201cMy Sister\u2019s Keeper\u201d)<\/em><\/p>\n

LAWYER: You\u2019re supposed to give her a kidney?<\/em><\/p>\n

ANNA: I want to sue my parents for the rights to my own body.<\/em><\/p>\n

LAWYER: Would you repeat that, please?<\/em><\/p>\n

FAW<\/strong>: For RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY, this is Bob Faw in Hanover, New Hampshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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