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My Sister's Keeper: A Novel | 
| Author: Jodi Picoult
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  1032 reviews
Sales Rank: 400
Media: Paperback
Pages: 448
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.1 x 1.4
ISBN: 0743454537
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780743454537
ASIN: 0743454537
Publication Date: February 1, 2005
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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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 A Heartbreaking Page Turner November 16, 2008
Sarah M. (Wake Forest, NC)
This was my first Jodi Picoult novel and upon completing it, I immediately purchased two more of her books. I couldn't wait to pick up the book and continue reading where I had left off. It was captivating and heartbreaking all at once.
My Sister's Keeper addresses an ethical slippery slope of conceiving a child (Anna) to save another who has been diagnosed with leukemia (Kait). Anna is filing a lawsuit to obtain the right to make her own decisions about whether she wants to be a donor for Kait.
The author tells the story from the perspective of Anna, her attorney, her guardian at litem, her mother, father, and forgotten brother. I empathized with the plight of each family member in the face of their conflicting opinions about the best course of action for Anna and Kait. The author does an excellent job of conveying what it is like for each of the characters to live in relation to the girls.
I have mixed feelings about the ending, but with a book that addresses this topic, how can you not?
 Good, not great until the end. Then it crashed November 15, 2008
KitchenMD (Swarthmore, PA USA)
I initially enjoyed the book but the end fell so flat that I really cannot recommend it. What a disappointment. The book raises interesting ethical issues.
Heart-wrenching, but captivating November 13, 2008
Bonnie D. (United States)
I loved this story, including the heart breaking end, and I didn't find it cliche at all. I thought that Anna was going to give the kidney to her sister and all would be well--typical American happy ending. But that didn't happen, which seemed to anger some of you but I thought it was more true to life. In real life, doesn't something usually happen to mar the perfect happy ending we usually see in movies?
This book gets five stars from me.
Should we be? November 12, 2008
Albert
The book my Sisters Keeper by Jodie Picolt, is going absolutely going great. There's a girl named Anna and she has everything until one day her parents try to take it away from her Anna older sister has a deadly disease called leukemia and it's basically attacking her kidney which makes me very sad that this had to happen to her in this way. So now they look at Anna for a kidney transplant knowing that her parents to have child just to protect another that's very stupid and wrong for them to do that. Now that
Anna knows that she being used hat made her upset and not up to deal with the sugery.
She finally had enough strength to get up and get a lawyer to protect herself she said that how
Her parents were using her to get her body parts just for her sister. And I don't believe that's right .I believe that the parents should've had loved their child. Anna parents could've at least made their daughter feel welcome in the family. My suggestion to the author would be why did they make the parents treat Anna like that? Why her Sister did couldn't find somebody else to give her a kidney transplant? I get really annoyed with most of the characters like Anna's parents; they get on my nerves because to me having Anna was a waste of sperm. The parents deserve to go prison for what they have done.
Annas has a great soul and she deserves to live more than anybody and to me I think her parents are being selfish and inconsiderate towards their own daughter I think that Anna should live with a more comfortable family. Anna sister is not feeling well but that doesn't mean that her parents should use Anna sister for her own body parts. I think that it's her organs and she doesn't have to give them up if she doesn't want to.
There's another problem that I have with this book is when poor Anna took her parents to court for them using her just to protect her sister. I believe that she had every right to take her parents to court because that wasn't right I think the parents should accept what's going to happen to their daughter. And they shouldn't take it out on an innocent little girl who honestly deserves to live too.
Wonderful read November 4, 2008
Alicia Ancona Reynolds (Mexico D.F., Mexico)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful book on a very difficult subject matter. I almost cried when I read it and thinking about it there's no better ending for the story than the one it has, albeit a sad and maybe shocking one.
The side story is a little bit blah, but with a strong main story with a wonderful protagonist that you'll absolutely love, you won't mind about it's minor plot defects.
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