This is one of my favorite books of all time!! After reading this book, I went on a rampage and read every Jodi Picoult book I could get my hands on. Anna's parents conceived her so that she could be a bone marrow donor for her older sister who has leukemia. Anna's life is full of surgeries, transfusions, and shots. This book follows her struggle to free herself from the role she was born to play. In the first chapter of the book, thirteen year old Anna hires a lawyer and a child advocate because she wants control of her own body. This book shows her struggle in the court system as well as at home with a mother who can't understand why she would condemn her sister to death.
As I mentioned before, this was the first Jodi Picoult book I ever read. As I found out later, most of Jodi Picoult's books deal with moral issues as well as family dilemmas. Jodi Picoult's books have covered sexual abuse by a priest, death penalty, stigmata, assisted suicide, child abuse, abortion, and more. Most of her novels center around or end with a court battle. My Sister's Keeper is no different. The novel builds up to a major court decision that they hold until the very end of the book and I found myself wavering from one side to the other. It is family drama at it's best.
Similar Novels: The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and The Pact by Jodi Picoult
Length: 423 pages
Copyright: 2004
1 comment:
How ironic...this was also my first book by her and I loved it! I am hoping to read even more.
Post a Comment