Handle with Care doesn't disappoint

Take a second and think of all the things that break: glass, cars, and relationships to just name a few. A break can be good like spring break or a break can be bad like a break-up. Jodi Picoult’s book Handle With Care addresses all of these breaks and especially bones that break. For six-year-old Willow, just walking is a challenge because she could slip on the rug or trip over a toy and within that fleeting second of being suspended in air, there is an acknowledgement to what is about to happen-bones are going to break. Willow was born with osteogenesis imperfecta also known as brittle-bones which forever keeps her confined to casts and wheelchairs trying to mend from the last fall.

However, her mother, Charlotte, wonders if her daughter should have to suffer through life with countless trips to the hospital and facing agonizing pain from breaking bone after bone after bone. What if doctors were able to predict the disease before Willow was ever born? Handle With Care asks the question that few dare to mutter, what if? What if her doctors were able to predict the disease in time to abort the fetus ending all suffering to Willow?

Once again, Jodi Picoult, author of Nineteen Minutes, Mercy, and Perfect Match, brings readers on an unexpected journey that catches them by surprise at teach turn of the page. You will not be disappointed by this book and what it has to offer. Just keep a pack of tissues close by because like all her books Picoult leaves readers in tears from characters that you can’t help but fall in love with. Their triumphs and falls become real and readers will be asking for more upon reading the last page.

Yes things break, but that is why there is tape, glue, friends, and family in life to help mend what has been broken. If nothing else friends and family offer what glue and tape cannot-love. You will not be disappointed by this novel and will learn from one little girl who loves life and hopes others can see past the bad and into the good.