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![]() ![]() Even a slight fall can result in multiple fractures that may require a half body cast. ![]() Patients have to take extreme precaution in their everyday lives to avoid fractures. For those of you who are not familiar with this term, it refers to a disease that results in excessively fragile bones making a patient vulnerable to fractures from even the slightest amount of trauma. The main prohhutagonist of the novel is 30 years old Charlotte O’ Keefe who is mother to a six years old girl, Willow diagnosed with a life long condition called Osteogenesis Imperfecta (brittle bone disease). Similar to her previous work ‘Handle with Care’ focuses on an ethical medical dilemma. ‘Handle with Care’ is a contemporary novel written by Jodi Picoult of ‘ My Sister’s Keeper’ fame which has now been adapted as an award winning motion picture starring Cameron Diaz. ![]() I thought only a very unique story would warrant should such a conflicting statement and that was enough to make me buy this novel. What made me reach for this novel was the subtitle “To save your daughter you must tell the world you wish she’d never been born”. While browsing through the ‘fiction’ section of a local bookstore I came across Jodi Picoult’s ‘Handle with Care’. ![]()
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