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by: Jodi Picoult
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780743454537
ISBN: 0743454537
Label: Washington Square Press
Manufacturer: Washington Square Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 448
Publication Date: February 01, 2005
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Sales Rank: 429
Studio: Washington Square Press
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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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Rating:  - My Sisters Keeper Excellent read
OH MY
how intense can One Book Be
It was great the twist and turns the book took . couldnt put it down. had to find out how it ended.
Read the whole thing straight thru.
Rating: - A Heartbreaking Page Turner
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 ... Read More
Rating:  - Good, not great until the end. Then it crashed
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.
Rating: - Heart-wrenching, but captivating
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.
Rating: - Should we be?
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 ... Read More
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