Does anyone else out there wonder if Jodi Picoult has mommy issues?

[Pamela]

I've read several (not all)of Jodi Picoult's books and I've noticed that I usually do not care for the mothers in her stories. Is it just me?

[Nora aka Diva]

No, I noticed that too. It's kinda odd, really.

[Marie]

Now that you mention it.......

[Anita]

You're right... I didn't realize that until now.

[Kirby]

good point!

[Ana]

yey... perfect match is a good example for the feeling's mother ...

[Vicki]

Yep, thought the exact same thing. I remember when the movie came out for My Sisters Keeper and I thought it odd to pick Cameron Diaz as the mother as I couldn't picture her as a maternal mother but then I thought she wasn't a very maternal mother in the book anyway so it kind of fit

[Debra]

yep! thought so while reading this and other Picoult books. still, her style of character evolution and detail is intriguing. want issues? read her book, Lone Wolf. now, that's one messed up family!

[[deleted user]]

I have felt for the mother's in pasts books *such as Perfect Match* but in books such as Nineteen Minutes I didn't really feel much for Alex.

[J.H.]

I don't think it's limited to mothers. I find almost all the characters unlikeable, with the exception of the beleaguered sister in My Sister's Keeper.

Or, if not unlikeable, they have no substance. Like Patrick in Perfect Match. Okay, I get it, he has a crush on Nina, but now that he's a grown man and she's married with a child, you'd think he would have found someone else.

[Judy]

This Nina broad strucks me as the kind of mother who will still be sleeping in her son's crib with him when he's 40 years old and still turning him over every 4 minutes to make sure he's still breathing.
Overbearing to the point of being a neurotic pain in the ass.Yes as a matter of fact -sick.JM