My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult, ISBN 9781741145052

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With her penetrating insight into the hearts and minds of real people, Jodi Picoult's 'My Sister's Keeper' examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person, and what happens when emotions meet with scientific advances.

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? Should you follow your own heart, or let others lead you? What happens when emotion catches up to scientific advances?

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About the Author: Jodi Picoult

Jodi studied creative writing with Mary Morris at Princeton, and had two short stories published in Seventeen magazine while still a student. Realism - and a profound desire to be able to pay the rent - led Picoult to a series of different jobs following her graduation: as a technical writer for a Wall Street brokerage firm, as a copywriter at an ad agency, as an editor at a textbook publisher, and as an 8th grade English teacher - before entering Harvard to pursue a master's in education. She married Tim Van Leer, whom she had known at Princeton, and it was while she was pregnant with her first child that she wrote her first novel, Songs of the Humpback Whale.
In 2003 she was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for Fiction. She has also been the recipient an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association, sponsored by the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust and Booklist, one of ten books written for adults that have special appeal for young adults; the Book Browse Diamond Award for novel of the year; a lifetime achievement award for mainstream fiction from the Romance Writers of America; Cosmopolitan magazine's Fearless Fiction' Award 2007; Waterstone's Author of the Year in the UK, and a Vermont Green Mountain Book Award. Most recently, she wrote five issues of the Wonder Woman comic book series for DC Comics. Her books are translated into thirty four languages in thirty five countries.
She and Tim and their three children live in Hanover, New Hampshire with a variety of animals including two Springer spaniels, two donkeys, two geese, three ducks, six chickens, and the occasional Holstein.

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Reviews of My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

Do we really decide our fate?
Reviewed by Joret, 13/12/2008

Does a child have the right to decide for themselves? We get an insight into this question from every character that is involved. Their anger, fear and reasoning are laid bare to the reader forcing you to think about it and find your own opinion. Just when you think that you are at peace with your choice on this matter, Picoult rips the carpet from underneath you and begs you to reconsider. What an amazing book, the end of the story is definitely not the end of the journey.

My Sisters Keeper
Reviewed by Catherine, 11/12/2008

This book is about a family who's eldest daughter is dianosed with cancer from an early age. Her younger sister is scientifically conceived to be a "match" in order for the eldest daughter to survive. With the family constantly in and out of hospital, now 16 years on the youngest daughter no longer wants to donate her body to her sister and takes on sueing her parents. This books looks at this case from every member of the family and makes you as the reader sympathise and udnerstand everyone's feelings. What makes it harder is that they all seem to "have a point". Shocking is the subject of the book, but even more shocking is its ending.