Picoult writes with unassuming brilliance and never descends into soap opera.” Stephen King“Jodi Picoult crafts yet another fascinating story and again finds a solution to what seems an impossible situation. It's a legal/medical thriller, but at bottom it's a story about the American heart of darkness: a small-town marriage under stress. Her books are an everyone thing, and the current offering - about a little girl whose bones are so brittle that they break almost at a puff of wind - is her best since My Sister's Keeper. Picoult is a chick thing need to get with the program. What rights do parents or doctors have to terminate a life? How disabled is too disabled? As a parent, how far would you go to save someone you love? “You men out there who think Ms. Handle with Care is an absorbing narrative which also questions the basis of medical ethics and of personal morality. And the obstetrician she's suing isn't just her physician - she's her best friend. As the family struggles to cover medical expenses, her mother Charlotte decides to file a wrongful birth lawsuit against her obstetrician for the compensation which might ensure a lifetime of care for Willow.But it means that Charlotte has to say in a court of law that she would have terminated the pregnancy if she'd known about the disability in advance. Willow O'Keefe is born with osteogenesis imperfecta, or brittle bone disease, which means she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, and a lifetime of pain.
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