9780743296427-0743296427-Handle with Care: A Novel

Handle with Care: A Novel

ISBN-13: 9780743296427
ISBN-10: 0743296427
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Paperback 512 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780743296427
ISBN-10: 0743296427
Author: Jodi Picoult
Publication date: 2009
Publisher: Atria/Emily Bestler Books
Format: Paperback 512 pages

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Handle with Care: A Novel (ISBN-13: 9780743296427 and ISBN-10: 0743296427), written by authors Jodi Picoult, was published by Atria/Emily Bestler Books in 2009. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Handle with Care: A Novel (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.37.

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When Willow is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, her parents are devastated—she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. In this provocative story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, “Picoult writes with unassuming brilliance” (Stephen King).

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, 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 had 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?

Emotionally riveting and profoundly moving, Handle with Care is an unforgettable novel about the fragility of life and the lengths we will go to protect it.
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