Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult, ISBN 9781741757866

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Handle with Care explores the life of parents with a handicapped child. If you were to discover your unborn child had a disability, should you terminate the pregnancy? Should your obstetrician provide you with advice on whether to have the child? Should it be the right of the parent to choose their own path? What rights do the parents have to terminate, and do your medical staff have the right to advise you on a personal decision? How disabled is too disabled?

Willow O'Keefe is born with a genetic defect, osteogneseis imperfecta (brittle bone disease). As a child her bones will break continually, and she'll suffer pain throughout her entire life. Her mother files a wrongful birth lawsuit against Willow's obstetrician, in order to secure the financial means to provide care for her daughter. Her obstetrician isn't just another medical staff member, she's her best friend.

Handle with Care immerses the reader in a scenario that questions our ethics and human morality.

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About the Author: Jodi Picoult

Jodi studied creative writing with Mary Morris at Princeton, and had two short stories published in Seventeen magazine while still a student. Realism - and a profound desire to be able to pay the rent - led Picoult to a series of different jobs following her graduation: as a technical writer for a Wall Street brokerage firm, as a copywriter at an ad agency, as an editor at a textbook publisher, and as an 8th grade English teacher - before entering Harvard to pursue a master's in education. She married Tim Van Leer, whom she had known at Princeton, and it was while she was pregnant with her first child that she wrote her first novel, Songs of the Humpback Whale.
In 2003 she was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction. She has also been the recipient an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association, sponsored by the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust and Booklist, one of ten books written for adults that have special appeal for young adults; the Book Browse Diamond Award for novel of the year; a lifetime achievement award for mainstream fiction from the Romance Writers of America; Cosmopolitan magazine's Fearless Fiction' Award 2007; Waterstone's Author of the Year in the UK, and a Vermont Green Mountain Book Award. Most recently, she wrote five issues of the Wonder Woman comic book series for DC Comics. Her books are translated into thirty four languages in thirty five countries.
She and Tim and their three children live in Hanover, New Hampshire with a variety of animals including two Springer spaniels, two donkeys, two geese, three ducks, six chickens, and the occasional Holstein.

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