As I told you all last week the new Jodi Picoult book had just come out. I just finished it this morning and I am still in shock. I am a fast reader and if I like a book I get so into it that I don't want to do anything but read. It is a little over 400 pages (yes I read it in 3 days) and never once was I least bit bored.
It deals with so many issues and Jodi Picoult has an amazing grace to the way she touches upon each one. Some of the issues are family, death, disability, trust, love, eating issues... trust me there are more. It never seems to much though and it unravels beautifully!
The story is about how far a person would go if they loved someone and who could get crushed on the way. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe have one daughter from Charlotte's previous marriage, Amelia. They want to have a child together but Charlotte is 38 years old and they are not having luck. Charlotte's best friend Piper takes Charlotte on as a patient since she is an ob/gyn. The O'keefes give birth to a daughter named Willow who is born with severe osteogenesis. She was born with seven broken bones and suffer hundreds of broken bones as grows up. Did Piper not see this earlier?
The family struggles with covering medical expenses and seeing Willow not being able to be like everyone else. Charlotte ends up meeting a laywer who suggests she files a wrongful birth suit. That is when the story takes its turn. You see in depth how each person is affected. Amelia, Willow's half sister, gets overshadowed by Wilow's disease and how Amelia deals with this. Each character is developed so well that you feel like you are in the town with them.
Truly an amazing way Jodi Picoult can write from so many different prespectives. Even if you are not a fan of reading you have to try to read this book. Parents, kids, doctors, anyone who has ever wondered if they were loved, everyone will take something from this book.
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