My Sister's Keeper
the gripping and hugely emotional tear-jerker from the bestselling author of Mad Honey
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Publisher Description
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER AND MAJOR MOTION PICTURE
'Emotionally riveting and will test your tear ducts to the limit' Daily Express
In all thirteen years of Anna's life, her parents have never given her a choice: she was born to be her sister Kate's bone marrow donor and she has always given Kate everything she needs.
But when Anna is told Kate needs a new kidney, she begins to question how much she should be prepared to do to save the older sibling she has always been defined by. So Anna makes a decision that will change their family forever - perhaps even fatally for the sister she loves.
From internationally bestselling author Jodi Picoult comes a masterpiece which asks us just how much we should do to care for the ones we love.
DISCOVER WHAT READS ARE SAYING ABOUT MY SISTER'S KEEPER:
If Ms Picoult could write a symphony, she would have the audience on their feet at the end, roaring for more. Bravo, bravo!
She has an amazing knack of delving deep into your raw emotions it leaves you feeling like a different person to when you started reading the first page.
I would give it 10 if it were possible.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The difficult choices a family must make when a child is diagnosed with a serious disease are explored with pathos and understanding in this 11th novel by Picoult (Second Glance, etc.). The author, who has taken on such controversial subjects as euthanasia (Mercy), teen suicide (The Pact) and sterilization laws (Second Glance), turns her gaze on genetic planning, the prospect of creating babies for health purposes and the ethical and moral fallout that results. Kate Fitzgerald has a rare form of leukemia. Her sister, Anna, was conceived to provide a donor match for procedures that become increasingly invasive. At 13, Anna hires a lawyer so that she can sue her parents for the right to make her own decisions about how her body is used when a kidney transplant is planned. Meanwhile, Jesse, the neglected oldest child of the family, is out setting fires, which his firefighter father, Brian, inevitably puts out. Picoult uses multiple viewpoints to reveal each character's intentions and observations, but she doesn't manage her transitions as gracefully as usual; a series of flashbacks are abrupt. Nor is Sara, the children's mother, as well developed and three-dimensional as previous Picoult protagonists. Her devotion to Kate is understandable, but her complete lack of sympathy for Anna's predicament until the trial does not ring true, nor can we buy that Sara would dust off her law degree and represent herself in such a complicated case. Nevertheless, Picoult ably explores a complex subject with bravado and clarity, and comes up with a heart-wrenching, unexpected plot twist at the book's conclusion.
