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Books : My Sister's Keeper: A Novel |
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List Price: $42.95Amazon.com's Price: $38.65 You Save: $4.30 (10%)Prices subject to change.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781416575245
Format: Large Print
ISBN: 1416575243
Label: Atria
Manufacturer: Atria
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 720
Publication Date: August 27, 2007
Publisher: Atria
Sales Rank: 1159616
Studio: Atria
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Product Description:
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.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - AMAZING book, but the ending RUINS it
Like so many other reviewers, I would like to reiterate that this book is wonderful. Jodi weaves a web of conflict that is both beautiful and terrible, where the answers are never right and never wrong. I applaud her for her characters that come to live inside of you, characters you learn to love and hate. When it comes down to it, the book teaches so many lessons about the human condition. I cried a few times and stayed up most of the night trying to get to the end.
That being said, ... Read More
Rating:  - Read it
Having not read any of Joid Picoults other books and hearing all the hype i was a bit sceptical. But the book has really made me question some of my beliefs that I thought were so obviously well founded. Definately a tear jerker for me, but that could have been due to the impact on my thinking. The end is slightly disapointing but surprising. It would have been great to have a happily ever after ending.
Rating: - Riveting yes, but.....
Picoult is a marvelous story teller with an incredible knack for pulling you over to her own prejudices on an issue. The book was a page turner. I started it late Friday night and completed it by 4:30pm on Sunday. I needed to know what would happen to Anna's court case while strongly leaning towards her right to her own body. I alternated between anger and understanding of a mother caught in the trap between the life of one daughter and the right to a normal life for the other. I was angry that the ... Read More
Rating: - More than I had hoped for!
This book is written beautifully. It started with a single story line (a family conceives another child to be a donor match for a sick one - but have no fear...this is no plot spoiler!) so I wondered how a whole book could be written on this one theme. It is to this author's credit that it did indeed take a whole book to explore this theme and others that were intertwined. I found it sensitive and thought provoking, and unlike another reviewer, enjoyed almost every page. It has inspired me to read ... Read More
Rating: - She Lost Me
I enjoyed nearly the entire book. Until I got to the end. (This next part contains spoilers..) Okay, this was where she lost me. It turns out the lawyer has epilepsy and has a seizure in the courtroom. Then, he drives Anna home and they get in a car accident because he gets hit by a drunk driver and she gets killed. All right, that would never happen. Why? BECAUSE IT'S AGAINST THE LAW FOR AN EPILEPTIC TO DRIVE AFTER HE HAD A SEIZURE!!!!Anna's father was the Fire Chief. He would certainly have known that. ... Read More
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