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  • This would be such a great book to read and discuss. I don't even know where to start with what issues it covers. Bioethics, life and death, organ donation, independent children, family relationships, etc.Having listened to this, I would like to sit down and read and take notes. This book and Picoul ... Continue

    This would be such a great book to read and discuss. I don't even know where to start with what issues it covers. Bioethics, life and death, organ donation, independent children, family relationships, etc.Having listened to this, I would like to sit down and read and take notes. This book and Picoult's other book Plain Truth might just inspire me to start an adult book club.I wonder what I would do if I was a parent. Would I try to have a gentic match to my child to save him/her? or would I let them die? Is that even legal right now?I now own an authographed copy of the paperback!! 3/25/05

    

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  • "Dark matter has a gravitational effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction."

    

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  • Very interesting, well written book. It certainly brings up quite a bit of controversy about designer babies and other medical decisions. The ending was extremely depressing!! But it did fit with the book.

    

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• ― Julie said on May 25, 2008 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

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  • As always with Jodi Picoult, another page-turner. This books brings together the medical field with the legal field, and the lengths we will go for our loved ones. The books twists and turns, knotting the characters together forever, to reveal a shocking ending.

    

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  • My Sister's Keeper

  • This is a very poignant, well-written story that not only will touch your heart but will really get you thinking about the tragedy of childhood illness, the hard choices these parents have to make, and how both these things powerfully affect the whole family.

    

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  • A really interesting book about 2 sisters---one desperately ill with Lukemia, the other a baby specifically designed to save her. Should Anna be forced to give up a kidney against her will? Told from multiple points of view.

    

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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.

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