1 down, 49 to Go (Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult)

**I have already read three books this year so the next three posts will have the same date (I am doing some catching up today since I just started this blog)


Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult

Well I absolutely LOVE this author so I knew the book would not disappoint, and it proved me right.

This book is about a young girl, Willow, born with osteogenesis imperfecta (aka. brittle bone disease). The book is written as if the different characters (her mom, dad, sister, lawyer, etc) are writing letters or talking directly to Willow. Jodi Picoult has a way of writing that makes the reader feel like you are living the story. All of her books have a legal issue and this one is of course no exception.

Here is a brief synopsis taken directly from Jodi Picoult's website

When Charlotte and Sean O’Keefe’s daughter, Willow, is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, they are devastated – she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. As the family struggles to make ends meet to cover Willow’s medical expenses, Charlotte thinks she has found an answer. If she files a wrongful birth lawsuit against her ob/gyn for not telling her in advance that her child would be born severely disabled, the monetary payouts might ensure a lifetime of care for Willow. But it means that Charlotte has to get up in a court of law and say in public that she would have terminated the pregnancy if she’d known about the disability in advance – words that her husband can’t abide, that Willow will hear, and that Charlotte cannot reconcile. And the ob/gyn she’s suing isn’t just her physician – it’s her best friend.

(http://www.jodipicoult.com/handle-with-care.html)

I have liked every one of Jodi Picoult's books thus far, but this one for me takes the cake as her best.