{"id":1797,"date":"2013-04-02T17:54:32","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T17:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2015-04-04T17:57:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-04T17:57:49","slug":"me-before-you-a-novel-by-jojo-moyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"Me Before You: a Novel by Jojo Moyes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1804\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Me-Before-You2.jpg\" alt=\"Me Before You\" width=\"119\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the cafe where Louisa Clark works as a waitress closes, she winds up working as a companion for Will Traynor, a quadriplegic confined to a wheelchair.\u00a0 Before he was struck by a motorcycle, Will had been an Alpha male, an aggressive businessman who traveled the world and enjoyed mountain climbing and other demanding sports.\u00a0 Now his girlfriend is gone, he can only move one hand slightly, and he is subject to serious and painful infections and medical complications.\u00a0 Upbeat Louisa eventually figures out that her role is primarily watcher &#8212; Will is depressed and suicidal.\u00a0 She determines to prove to him that life is worth living, even given his current limitations.\u00a0 She actually gets Will to laugh,\u00a0they have a variety of outings, and Louisa finds herself falling in love.\u00a0 But is this enough for Will?\u00a0 What if it isn&#8217;t?\u00a0 Who decides if he lives or dies? A powerful, thought-provoking novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the cafe where Louisa Clark works as a waitress closes, she winds up working as a companion for Will Traynor, a quadriplegic confined to a wheelchair.\u00a0 Before he was struck by a motorcycle, Will had been an Alpha male, an aggressive businessman who traveled the world and enjoyed mountain climbing and other demanding sports.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1797\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Me Before You: a Novel by Jojo Moyes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-lois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}