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Welcome back to Insider Pix, where we uncover what entertainment and culture insiders are watching, reading, and listening to! Next up:
Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of thirty novels, including By Any Other Name, Mad Honey (co-authored with Jennifer Finney Boylan), Wish You Were Here, The Book of Two Ways, A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, and My Sister’s Keeper, and, with daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband.
Hollow Bones
After losing her mother on 9/11, Molly grows up to run Rhode Island’s emergency preparedness department, where she plans for every disaster imaginable. But when a new crisis shakes her family, she’s forced to confront just how little we can prepare for life’s unexpected turns.
Jodi’s Picks
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A hidden gem you wish more people knew about?
Best TV show you’ve watched recently?
Best movie you’ve watched recently?
Pix Media’s resident bookworm Genevieve Nierman read Hollow Bones in one day, staying up until 2:30 a.m. to finish. Then, she went straight to the source. Read her conversation with Jodi Picoult below!
GN: Hollow Bones spends a lot of time with people whose job is to prepare for the absolute worst-case scenario. What kind of research did you do into the world of emergency preparedness?
JP: I shadowed Alysia Mihalakos, the actual director of emergency preparedness and response for the state of Rhode Island. She has done everything from the entire COVID vaccine rollout to evacuating seniors from nursing homes when there’s a blizzard. I watched her run training triage exercises for nursing students. What surprised me the most is that the things we take for granted are exactly the things that Alysia has to think about: like how to evacuate hospitals and neonatal ICUs—terrible, terrible “what ifs” that you and I don’t think about, because Alysia (and Molly!) do.