Willow O'Keefe is not a normal five-year-old child she is exceedingly smart and can spit out facts as if she were constantly reading from Wikipedia (a characteristic that leads her sister, Amelia, to nickname her "Wiki"). However, unlike her other novels, each voice speaks in the second person, addressing "you." The "you" to which each narrator refers is Willow O'Keefe. Each chapter takes on a different voice, molding to the central characters' thoughts.
When it comes down to it, Picoult's novels are about relationships between people, and that is what primarily makes Picoult's novels so gripping.Īs she does in her other novels, Picoult weaves the tale in Handle With Care with the use of multiple points of view. However, with nearly every novel focusing on different controversial issues that make the headlines daily, they each share a common thread. Picoult's novels juggle issues such as a school shooting, a mercy killing, sexual abuse, a suicide pact and the appearance of stigmata. It has managed to remain in the public eye more so than her other novels because it has been adapted to a film (which will be released this summer) including such actors as Cameron Diaz, Alec Baldwin and Abigail Breslin. However, Picoult's 16th novel, Handle with Care, is no less poignant than her others.Īlthough many of her previous novels have been bestsellers, Picoult's fame skyrocketed with her 2003 novel, My Sister's Keeper. Picoult has said that, for her, the creation of a novel is much like the development of a baby in that it takes nine months.įor the many authors who release books quickly, it can be said that oftentimes the hastiness of finishing the novel detracts from the quality of the work. Jodi Picoult has been steadily releasing books, nearly annually, since 1992. AUTHOR: Jodi PicoultTITLE: Handle with Care PUBLISHER: Atria496 Pages
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