Every character real.

Every situation true.

Picoult defies you to put this book down once youve begun it.

I do the same.

Elizabeth George 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.

Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate a life and a role that she has never questioned 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.

This book is told from multiple points of view My Sisters 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 childs life .

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even if that means infringing upon the rights of another Should you follow your own heart or let others lead you What happens when emotion catches up to scientific advances Product details Paperback Book Author Jodi Picoult Genre Fiction Publisher Allen Unwin ISBN 9781741145052