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At first glance, Dr. LucyWeiss looks like a typical high-achieving, upper-middle-class working mother who is raising two children in the suburbs with her husband. But having overcome a difficult childhood in foster care, Lucy knows firsthand what it is like to grow up in the margins. Now a pediatrician, she finds herself working with at-risk patients and their families. Every day she must decide whether a parent's actions are so incompetent—or so clueless—that a child is in danger. As she moves between her disparate worlds—from worrying about her own daughter enduring the social pressures of adolescence to worrying about parents struggling with drugs and impossible living situations—Lucy must judge herself as a parent, critique other parents, and also deal with the echoes of her childhood.Through it all, she keeps the balance with humor and sympathy. The Mercy Rule is a compassionate and funny novel sure to resonate with those who know the joys and challenges of taking care of children.
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Jean-paul Hild
reviewed The Mercy Rule on June 17, 2011
The Mercy Rule
This is a random book that I took out from the library. At first I thought i might not like it, and was pleasantly surprised at how interested i was, but then as soon as I moved away from the first couple of chapters, it went downhill. The book is about a pediatrician who mainly works with kids from social services, something she feels strongly about because she was a foster child/adopted herself. she has a husband and two kids, but kind of ignores the husband half the time, and she blatantly dislikes her daughter, favoring her son. Her daughter knows this. Poor thing. She also looked down on her patients. The main woman was just so distasteful to me that it ruined the whole book. Stories of different families were interesting, as were the chapters narrated by the daughter.
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