Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult


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Every expectant parent will tell you that they don't want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they'd been given the choice. Instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, the pitying stares of "luckier" parents, and maybe worst of all, the what-ifs. What if their child had been born healthy? But it's all worth it because Willow is, well, funny as it seems, perfect. She's smart as a whip, on her way to being as pretty as her mother, kind, brave, and for a five-year-old an unexpectedly deep source of wisdom. Willow is Willow, in sickness and in health.

Everything changes, though, after a series of events forces Charlotte and her husband to confront the most serious what-ifs of all. What if Charlotte should have known earlier of Willow's illness? What if things could have been different? What if their beloved Willow had never been born? To do Willow justice, Charlotte must ask herself these questions and one more. What constitutes a valuable life? (From Amazon)

3 comments:

Kelly said...

This is a terrific book, I liked it as much as Picout's My Sister's Keeper, which was my favorite Picoult novel.

LuAnn said...

Jody is one of my favorite authors, so I'm anxious to read this book.

Lori's Reading Corner said...

What an amazing book. I will carry this with me for a long time.