Dear jodi picoult, i want to begin by thanking you for raising awareness about osteogenesis imperfecta in your newest bestseller, handle with care. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read handle with care. Atria books, 2009 book 16 as the family struggles to make ends meet to cover willows medical expenses, charlotte thinks she has found an answer. Jodi picoult doesnt shy away from tough issues, and handle with care raises a lot of tough issues. Handle with care explores the knotty tangle of medical ethics and personal morality in the case of a disabled child and her mothers attempt at providing care for the child. Handle with care is an absorbing narrative which also questions the basis of medical ethics and of personal morality. Ok, i just finished reading handle with care, just a few minutes ago, and though i love the book, i hate the ending. It was very sad and also made me realize that i shouldnt take life for granted. The author is clever, entertaining, and unpredictable. It is about a little girl with a disease where she breaks bones very easily. After years of caring for willow, her family faces financial disaster. If its written by a man, its called groundbreaking. A book that examines the relationships between people, or families, is called womens fiction if it is written by a female author. Enter edgar, who agrees to play olivers role in the pages of delilahs favorite book.
The blurb seemed interesting and ive read a few of picoults other books so i had to pick it up for something different to read. While its obvious that the formula works, it can be a bit repetitive. Handle with care another great story by jodi picoult. I used to be much more impressive, since i wrote the majority of my books while i was raising my three kids. Theres a child with a sickness, a lawsuit, and a moral question that will keep readers up at night. Like many jodi picoult books, handle with care is well written and deals with a well researched. Picoult has become a master almost a clairvoyant at targeting hot issues and writing highly readable pageturners about them.
Picoult s books and this one didnt disappoint in that regard, teaching about the devastation of osteogenesis imperfect, sometimes called brittle bone disease. In lesser hands, such an undertaking would be unwieldy at best, but picoult delivers a deeply affecting story about one family struggling to do the. Handle with care by jodi picoult at the best online ebook storage. I have osteogenesis imperfecta, more easily referred to as oi or brittle bone disease.
Handle with care by jodi picoult book club discussion. The end really bothered me as it seemed unnecessary. She has also written two ya novels with her daughter, samantha van leer. Jodi picoult received an ab in creative writing from princeton and a masters degree in education from harvard. Handle with care by jodi picoult 2009, paperback for. Thank you jodi for writing a story about something that isnt seen very often. Handle with care is picoults 16th novel it was released in 2009, and. I havent read a jodi picoult book in a long time but when my friend recommended this book at our book club i thought i would give it a try. Like many jodi picoult books, handle with care is well written and deals with a well researched difficult issue impacting a child and family. My sisters keeper what were reading nowits a thoughtprovoking read with wonderful characters. But in her newest novel, handle with care, she outpicoults herself by tackling all of the abovementioned topics, and then some. Emotionally riveting and profoundly moving, handle with care brings us into the heart of a family bound by an incredible burden. I offer up, for example, the marriage plot by jeffrey eugenides. The novel is told from each characters firstperson point of view, and in the audio book that i listened to, each character was read by a different actor.
When they were growing up, my kids knew that they came first. The story follows the life of a young girl, willow okeefe, and her family. This author feels strongly about the book handle with care by jodi. Jodi picoult is the author of 26 internationally bestselling novels, and is probably.
Jodi picoult has never been one to shy away from hotbutton issues. A brief synopsis and the ending will be revealed for the book handle with care. The child with the condition is 6year old willow okeefe, who is otherwise. Content includes books from bestselling, midlist and debut authors. This was a very good book, but i feel like the twist at the end was too reminiscent of my sisters keeper. Consider examples from the book and discuss why you think certain breaks can or cannot be mended.
I also hated the ending and was so mad at jodi for ending the book in that way. Jodi picoult is the author of 26 internationally bestselling novels, and is probably one of the biggest names in writing out there currently. Handle with care is one of jodi picoults books that i hadnt actually heard about until i saw it sitting in a charity shop. Like all of picoults books, handle with care, brings up tough issues. I liked the way that picould explored each persons feelings, delving deep into. A site dedicated to book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy. The back of the book blurb essentially says that the book is about the parents of a kid. If she slips on a crisp packet she could break both her legs, and spend six months in a half body cast. Handle with care is like most of picoults other novels. Handle with care by jodi picoult was an outstanding book for me. You almost dont want the book to end, and then when it does, its such an unbelievable ending that you cannot believe what youve just read. Picoult writes in such a way that i am not sure who is right and wrong, or what side i should be on.
Sean and charlotte are able to reconcile and put the check. To exist in delilahs world, oliver must take the place of a regular boy. Willow okeefe a genius of a 6 year old who was born with osteogenesis imperfecta. Handle with care is a heartwrenching novel about illnesses and family relations. Her books all follow the same formula of a moral dilemma, followed by a twist right at the ending of the book. Emotionally riveting and profoundly moving, handle with care brings us into the heart of a family bound by an incredible burden, a desperate will to keep their ties from breaking, and, ultimately.
The lawsuit is trying and it almost breaks the family because they feel the same way. Handle with care was in general a good book but in some areas it seemed to be lacking the thought that picoult gives to many of her other books. I liked them all very much they all got 4 stars but werent exactly 5 star material. The plot family with sick daughter gets into big ethical courtroom drama is straight out of my sisters keeper and the multivoiced multipoint of view narrative is straight out of lots of her books. It is a sad story with a horrible ending but i will be recommending this book to people although. Jodi picoult writes very successful bestsellers but reading handle with care, i couldnt help but think id read it all before. Handle with care jodi picoult age rec 1430 five stars prior to handle with care, i had read three of picoults novels sing you home, the pact and my sisters keeper. Handle with care 2009 is the seventeenth novel by the american author, jodi picoult. Are you a student looking for information about jodi.
I just finished rereading a novel by jodi picoult who is an amazing author on books dealing with tough themes around race, disability, religion etc. Download and read online for free handle with care by jodi picoult. As an rn, i have once taken care of a young boy with oi and what a challenge this young boy was. Youve really woven quite a knot of plot here, and i appreciate that you. House rules book by jodi picoult official publisher. However challenging, he was the sweetest boy and took after mom, sweet and polite. An interesting novel following a family dealing with a child with brittle bone syndrome. She goes into the aspects of what its like to raise a child with special needs and to fight for that child no matter what the cost.
Buy handle with care by jodi picoult online at alibris. I really liked the book and finished it in two days, but when i got to the ending. In bestseller jodi picoult and her daughter samantha van leers new young adult novel, off the page, its a miracle that seems perfect at firstbut there are complications. Is there anything in the book that represents the unbreakable. Booksseries post, i listed this book as number ten because i wasnt happy with a main character and because of the ending. Another story that gives us something to really think about. Handle with care is picoults 16 th novel it was released in 2009, and was a sunday times number one bestseller. I am trying to understand why jodi picoult wrote the en. Willow has brittle bone disease, her family doesnt have enough money to cover her medical expenses, and the answer to all their worries seems to be a wrongful birth suit.