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by Jodi Picoult
FORMAT: Paperback
ISBN: 9781741758054
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Online Price: $24.99
ISBN: 9781741758054
Category: Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Format: Paperback
Publication Date: 2009-01-17
Publisher: ALLEN & UNWIN
Country of origin: Australia
Pages: 432
Dimensions (mm): 198x129mm
Weight: 407g
My Sister's Keeper
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. Told from multiple points of view, 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?
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19/06/2011
My Sisters Keeper is Jodi Picoults 11th novel. It centres around Anna Fitzgerald who has retained lawyer Campbell Alexander to sue her parents for the right to her own body. Anna was conceived to provide (initially) cord blood for her older sister Kate who has leukaemia. As she has grown up and as Kates disease has progressed, more and more has been demanded of Annas body for her sister. The story of what happens is told in several voices: Annas, her mother Saras, her brother Jesses, her father Brians, her lawyer Campbells, and her guardian ad litem, Julias. this is a provocative novel that does not shy away from the issues: conceiving a child to save another; who has rights over a minors body; is it possible to love a child too much; is it possible to love all ones children equally; teenage pyromania. As always, Picoult handles the court scenes with finesse, and the final twist makes for a perfect ending. A great read!
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