Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult is a heartwrenching story of a family with a severely disabled daughter. The family is stretched to its limits financially and emotionally. In order to be able to continue to care for this child, they sue for wrongful life. In doing this they must state that had they been made aware of their daughter's medical condition they would have opted for abortion.
Her next book will be released in 2010 and will be called House Rules. It is about Asperger's Syndrome.
While you are waiting for Handle With Care, you might like to try something by one of these authors who also do not fear to tackle the hard issues:
Elizabeth Berg
Chis Bohjalian
Alice Hoffman
Anna Quindlen
Jacquelyn Mitchard
Sue Miller
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