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My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult
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My Sister's Keeper

by Jodi Picoult

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  katiemertz | Nov 20, 2009 |
if you seen the movie, I say read the book. it's the same but not as much as you think it is.

I knew of this book for a while ow, but i didn't know what's it was all about, but of course, I ended up letting it piled up in my TBRs for the longest time. Until the movie came....

I have a soft spot in anything that's being regard as a "spare part child". It has become an itch, or a peeve if you may, an issue this book has managed to portray.

I found myself trying to read it through whenever I could. This book comprised of first hand experience from all of the characters involved. The book centered on Anna, the specially engineered child by their parents, to be the sole donor for her older sister Kate, who is suffering from a rare kind of Leukemia. One day, she just suddenly said she had enough and decided to court to apply for Medical emancipation from her parents.

Personally this book is an emotional read for me. I got so absorbed in it, and I found myself feeling sorry for Anna through out the book. Regardless screaming somebody die already because i wanted to finish the book asap too lol. ( )
  lisa211 | Nov 15, 2009 |
A sisters Friendship to fight through cancer. A suspenceful love story that will leave you with shock. ( )
  MrFClass | Nov 13, 2009 |
Jodi Picoult’s book My Sister’s Keeper describes the struggle of a 13-year old girl, Anna Fitzgerald who was conceived by her parents to be a genetic match to her older sister Kate, who has leukemia. Anna undergoes many blood transfusions and bone marrow operations for her sister, but when her parents ask her to give a kidney, she breaks down and tries to find help from an attorney to give her medical freedom. This sounds like a terrible thing for Anna to do at a time when her older sister needs her the most, but since select chapters of the book are told in Anna’s point of view, the reader can see how hard it is for a young girl to give up everything for someone else. Like many of Picoult’s books this one is very controversial because it questions the ethical decision making of the parents. Is it moral to have a second child to save one’s first child? Even though Anna loves her sister very much she still feels that “nobody ever asked” and that she cannot go through with the surgery. Soon after winning her case and gaining the opportunity to make her own medical decisions, Anna gets killed in a car accident and her kidneys are given to Kate. This huge twist in the ending is completely unexpected and shows the reader that Anna was truly born to be a sacrifice for her sister.
  mla3048 | Nov 12, 2009 |
My Sister's Keeper is a heart breaking, emotional story. Anna was born to help her sister fight leukemia. She can’t help but wonder what her life would be like she wasn't forced to go through various surgeries and transfusions for her sister. She makes a difficult decision to sue her parents for the rights to her own body. It was not one of my favorite books I have ever read, but I was able to form a strong emotional connection to this book because I read an excerpt from this story out loud for my speech tournament last year, acting as Anna. I had to do my best to act out Anna's various emotions such as anger, fear, and sorrow. While reading the story, you allow yourself to open up to her vulnerability and emotion. It’s a story that really makes you think, long and hard, about all sorts of moral and ethical dilemmas and consider what your own actions might be under similar circumstances. I highly recommend this book.
  jessgoncalves | Nov 11, 2009 |
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This all feels like some awkward combination of a sci-fi novel and a movie on the Lifetime Channel.
 
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New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness.

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.

My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person. Is it morally correct to do whatever it takes to save a child's life, even if that means infringing upon the rights of another? Is it worth trying to discover who you really are, if that quest makes you like yourself less? Should you follow your own heart, or let others lead you? Once again, in My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult tackles a controversial real-life subject with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity.

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