“Wish you were here” by Jodi Picoult is about a young adult art auction specialist from New York City who gets stranded in the Galápagos Islands during the 2020 pandemic. The character Diana O’Toole must choose between staying with her boyfriend Fin who is a surgical resident trying to battle this global virus or fall in love with a civilian from the Galápagos Islands. She falls into this personal journey during the pandemic while her boyfriend is trying to stay alive while living in New York City and is debating on marrying her or not. They exchange emails, texts and letters while she is living on this island. She also befriends a teenage girl who has mental

Health issues on the island. Diana ends up figuring it all out and putting her life changing trip behind her and she and fin becomes happily engaged and flourishes as an Art dealer back home

The overall story is unpredictable as she flips her whole life upside down so she can travel to a remote island with just the clothes on her back. And we don’t get to see another life when she falls in love with the male civilian Gabriel and how she becomes close to his teenage daughter. I thought that was a shame. The story then ends when she becomes engaged to Fin who we really didn’t get to see a happy realistic, relationship, with just a couple of emails and texts and how he nursed her back to health from the that tragedy when she came home from her “trip”. I thought this book really showed us how the pandemic changed our lives and how we interact with other people in our lives.

We live in a time where anything can happen and just a blink of an eye. I also think we can always change our story and possibly change our outlook on life even if we have another chance. It really makes you think about who you want to be and the sacrifices you are willing to take.