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Elm Street Book Group: HANDLE WITH CARE

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 6:00 PM (ET)

New Haven, United States

Elm Street Book Group: HANDLE WITH CARE

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A novel by Jodi Picoult 

When Charlotte and Sean O’Keefe’s daughter, Willow, is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, they are devastated – she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. As they struggle to make ends meet to cover Willow’s medical expenses, Charlotte thinks she has found an answer. If she files a wrongful birth lawsuit against her ob/gyn for not telling her in advance that her child would be born severely disabled, the monetary payouts might ensure a lifetime of care for Willow. But Charlotte will have to get up in a court of law and say in public that she would have terminated the pregnancy if she’d known about the disability in advance – words that her husband can’t abide, that Willow will hear, and that Charlotte cannot reconcile. And the ob/gyn she’s suing isn’t just her physician – it’s her best friend.

 

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133 Elm St.
New Haven, 06510

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 6:00 PM (ET)


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The Main (Ives) branch of the New Haven Free Public Library system is located at 133 Elm St., across from the New Haven Green, corner of Elm and Temple. Yale Lot #51 on Temple Street (across the street from the library) opens to the public at 4pm, and there are 2-hour parking meters on streets surrounding the library. More information may be found at www.cityofnewhaven.com/library.

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