Handle with Care
Apr. 23rd, 2011 04:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolly_chanI'm reading the book Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult and it's so freaking interesting °_°
It's about a family with a daughter that has osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic disposition that makes your bones so brittle they break very easily, and about her mother who files a wrongful birth lawsuit against her obstetrician (who's her best friend) to ensure a good future for her daughter, financially. It's written just as the book title suggests. The author has really put much care into portraying all the characters in a way that you understand them.
Every chapter is from another character's point of view and though I usually don't like that, this time I think it's great to peak into all of their minds. It really gives you a round picture of the whole situation. How the mother tries to save her one daughter - but kind of destroys the life of her other daughter. How she gives up her best friend because she thinks it's best for her daughter with OI. How the father is absolutely against that lawsuit because he refuses to openly say he would have had his daughter aborted.
When my friend lent me that book I never thought I'd like it that much.
It's about a family with a daughter that has osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic disposition that makes your bones so brittle they break very easily, and about her mother who files a wrongful birth lawsuit against her obstetrician (who's her best friend) to ensure a good future for her daughter, financially. It's written just as the book title suggests. The author has really put much care into portraying all the characters in a way that you understand them.
Every chapter is from another character's point of view and though I usually don't like that, this time I think it's great to peak into all of their minds. It really gives you a round picture of the whole situation. How the mother tries to save her one daughter - but kind of destroys the life of her other daughter. How she gives up her best friend because she thinks it's best for her daughter with OI. How the father is absolutely against that lawsuit because he refuses to openly say he would have had his daughter aborted.
When my friend lent me that book I never thought I'd like it that much.
