NHBF Keynote Jodi Picoult tickets selling fast
The NH Book Festival is counting the days until Jodi Picoult, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of 31 novels and the festival’s 2026 Keynote Author, will discuss her September 2026 release, Hollow Bones. She’ll be in conversation with NHPR’s Rebecca Lavoie at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord on Friday, October 2.
For Picoult’s fans, her well-researched, emotionally charged works of fiction are nearly impossible to put down, and Hollow Bones promises to be the same. From the book’s description:
On September 11, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was only two months old, her mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never came home. Her father and the stepmother who raised her couldn’t have loved her more, but she still grew up with a healthy dread of disasters.
Now an adult, she runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness, mapping out ways to save lives during storms, epidemics, and airplane crashes. She and her husband, Jesse—a police polygraph expert with his own history of crisis—have found a love that is a solace in a dangerous world. But then the unexpected upends their new marriage, leading them both to question everything they thought they knew.
Moving between past and present, Hollow Bones is an epic story of the lies we tell ourselves as we write the narratives of our lives, the plans we design to protect ourselves at the worst moments, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters.
Picoult’s conversation partner Rebecca Lavoie is the head of NHPR’s podcast unit, including Outside/In and Civics 101, as well as the host of her own hit podcast, Crime Writers On…, and the Netflix podcast You Can't Make This Up. She is the co-author of five true-crime books and has written for many publications, including the Concord Monitor, New Hampshire Magazine, Newsweek, and Playboy.
Tickets for this exciting event are going quickly. Each ticket includes a signed hardcover copy of Hollow Bones and the opportunity for a professional photo with Jodi Picoult. So don’t wait! Get your ticket now!
—Faith Guttman