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"My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult
Product Description[Amazon.com]
Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate -- a life and a role that she has never challenged...until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister -- and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves.
# Paperback: 448 pages
# Publisher: Washington Square Press; Mti edition (May 19, 2009)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 1439157383
# ISBN-13: 978-1439157381
MY THOUGHTS: It has taken me forever to get to read this book. Everyone has read this book long ago. I am probably the only person that HASN'T read this book. The one reason I didn't read this book is that Jodi Picoult is such a good writer that she makes you stop and think about the subject of her books. Her books also don't have good endings, or should I say happy endings. This is a book that makes you think, would I do this for my sister, give my kidney to her, knowing full well that if something happened to my other kidney I could die. This is a terrible decision for an adult. I couldn't possibly put a decision like this to a 13 year old child. But this book does just that. Anna has made the decision not to give her kidney to her sister and has taken her parents to court. To be medically emancipated from her family, that is to make her own decisions concerning her body. If you haven't read this book yet, please read it! It is beautifully written and leads you into some interesting questions you have to answer for yourself.
MY RATING: 5
1 wonderful people stopped by:
I haven't read it either, and a friend was recently telling me about it. She was complaining about Picoult's typical plot outline (which I haven't yet gotten sick of since I've only read 3-4) but she said she thought the movie ending - much criticized for being so changed - was more realistic. Are you going to watch the movie? I'd be interested what you think of it.
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