Was it the act of giving birth that made you a mother? Did you lose that label when you relinquished your child? If people were measured by their deeds, on the one hand, I had a woman who had chosen to give me up; on the other, I had a woman who'd sat up with me at night when I was sick as a child, who'd cried with me over boyfriends, who'd clapped fiercely at my law school graduation. Which acts made you more of a mother? Both, I realized. Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.

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Bibliography
Songs of the Humpback Whale (1992)
Harvesting the Heart (1993)
Picture Perfect (1995)
Mercy (1996)
The Pact (novel) (1998)
Keeping Faith (1999)
Plain Truth (2000)
Salem Falls (2001)
Perfect Match (2002)
Second Glance (2003)
My Sister's Keeper (2004)
Vanishing Acts (2005)
The Tenth Circle (2006)
Nineteen Minutes (2007)
Wonder Woman (vol. Picoult currently has some 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide. Nineteen Minutes Picoult's novel about the aftermath of a school shooting in a small town has become her first book to debut at #1 on the New York Times Best Seller list.

Picoult currently has some 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide. Jodi Lynn Picoult (pron. : /ˈdʒoʊdi piːˈkoʊ/; born May 19 1966) is an American author.