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New York Times best-selling 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 13 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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Somewhat predictable ending (for me at least), but still a great book. definitely a tearjerker, I'll have to keep an eye out for the movie.
0I wanted to rated this a one star but certain characters namely Campbell and Anna made it to a 2 star rating.
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I hated this book, there are times I wanted to throw this book to the wall. One was Anna’s mother Sara Fitzgerald. For nearly half the book she is represented as the bad guy who only cares about her other daughter Kate and just sees Anna as the donor. Because all throughout the book all she thinks about is Kate. Even when Anna was born she tells her husband Brian, “careful” when dealing with the umbilical cord instead of being excited that her baby is born healthy. However the next half of the book it’s almost like she switches and suddenly cares for her daughter and even says in the court room. “I love both of my daughters”.
If this isn’t bad enough, after Anna gets her medical emancipation she then gets into a car accident which left her brain dead because of the severe head injury which led her to donate her kidney to her sister Kate. WHAT WAS THE POINT OF HER GETTING MEDICAL EMANCIPATION IF SHE WAS GOING TO DIE AND END UP GIVING UP HER KIDNEY?!!!!! I don’t understand and it was such a cop out and cheap and horrible way to end this story. I hate it. I hate how the author chose this to be the end.
This is the first and it might be the last book I read from Jodi Picoult.
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