My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult. Washington Square Press. 2004
Genre: Fiction
This is among one of Picoult’s popular books and portrays a family with a rebellious son, Jesse, a daughter with leukemia, Kate, and a daughter that was made to have the same bone marrow as Kate, Anna. This topsy turvy family goes overboard when Anna takes a sudden lawsuit on the family. Follow the struggles of Anna’s decision that could lead to her sister’s death and what happens to those around her.
“(A) fascinating character stud framed by a complex, gripping story… a beautiful, heartbreaking, controversial, and honest book.”
- Booklist (starred review)
This book is about a teen girl, Anna that was made to match her sister, Kate’s bone marrow, so that she can be a donor for her and help Kate through her leukemia. When her parents find out that Kate needs a kidney transplant, they all expect Anna to go through the surgery until she files a medical emancipation so that she can get her own medical rights and decide for herself. Through the book you go from each person’s story, struggles, past and present to find out what happens.
“On the other hand, I was born for a very specific purpose… I was born because a scientist managed to hook up my mother’s eggs and my father’s sperm to create a specific combination of precious genetic material.”
This was my first time reading a book by this author, and I thought that it was a marvelous book. There were man sad and revealing parts but I thought that overall it was very good and I would enjoy reading something by her again. This has affected me because I had never really known about sperm cell research and how it worked so this gave me information on it and I good story to read. I think I enjoyed that the author had the book from all the character’s perspective; I really enjoyed hearing how each of them felt.
