Google Preview

• 2 people find this helpful

  • 

  • Anna was born to provide blood from her umbilical cord to her older sibling who had a serious illness. As years go by, however, she gives blood and bone marrow on multiple occasions. When she is expected to give Kate one of her kidneys in order to save her life once again, she hires her own attorney ... Continue

    Anna was born to provide blood from her umbilical cord to her older sibling who had a serious illness. As years go by, however, she gives blood and bone marrow on multiple occasions. When she is expected to give Kate one of her kidneys in order to save her life once again, she hires her own attorney to emancipate her from her parents so that she can make these decisions on her own. The book provides many points of view and raises important questions. It is read by Julia Gibson, Barbara McCullogh, Andy Paris, Tom Steckhalter, Jenny Eceda, and Richard Poe.

    

    Is this helpful?

• ― Missmath144 said on Aug 31, 2008 about the Hardcover edition| Add your feedback

• 2 people find this helpful

  • 

  • Can a parent love too much? Or is too much never enough?
    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 o ... Continue

    Can a parent love too much? Or is too much never enough?
    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, 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. A provocative novel that raises some important ethical issues, My Sister's Keeper is the story of one family's struggle for survival at all human costs and a stunning moral parable for all time.

    

    Is this helpful?

• ― meganzing said on Aug 17, 2008 about the Paperback edition| 1 feedback| 1 feedback

• 2 people find this helpful

  • 

  • 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

    

    Is this helpful?

• ― SheReads said on Mar 5, 2007 about the Audio CD edition| Add your feedback

• .

  • 

  • This is the first time a book made me cry; movies yes, but books no.

    

    Is this helpful?

• ― Butterstweak said on Jul 3, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

• .

  • Don't Do This At Home

  • Jodi Picoult used the first-person narrative style similar to Yukio Mishima's "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion." Each party has their own says, which collectively weave the story together. Every time, when the character is switched, a totally different landscape and perspective is shifted that cre ... Continue

    Jodi Picoult used the first-person narrative style similar to Yukio Mishima's "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion." Each party has their own says, which collectively weave the story together. Every time, when the character is switched, a totally different landscape and perspective is shifted that creates strange sympathetic
    sensation and, sometimes, confusion.

    

    Is this helpful?

• ― artie said on May 8, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

• .

  • 

  • Great read! I was really wrapped up in the drama. Still hated the mother at the end even though I suspect the writer intended that to change. I don't believe in bringing kids into the world with her intentions (lets have babies because that is what comes next in a happy marriage) so that probably ... Continue

    Great read! I was really wrapped up in the drama. Still hated the mother at the end even though I suspect the writer intended that to change. I don't believe in bringing kids into the world with her intentions (lets have babies because that is what comes next in a happy marriage) so that probably colored it differently for me than it may other readers. Had a tear or two at the end.

    

    Is this helpful?

• ― JonnieBean said on Mar 9, 2009 about the Paperback edition| Add your feedback

Groups with this in collection

Networking Book Club (6)

Teen Books (31)

Malaysian Bookworms (56)

Jodi Picoult Books (53)

50 Book Challenge! (449)

• Fictiondeathsisterscancerleukemiamedical ethicsmothers and daughtersorgan donationadult fictionBook Club Choice
• See all (45)