(12/16/2007)
My Sister's Keeper tells the story of 13 year old Anna. The only reason she was ever born was to keep her sister, Kate alive. Kate was diagnosed with a severe and rare form of leukemia roughly 3 years before Anna was made. Although there is no doubt that her parents love both of their daughters, Anna decides to sue her parents against rights of her own body. Her whole life Anna has had no choice but to donate different parts of her body. Although most of the time she does these donations both with love and hope that they will keep her older sister from leaving her, this time is just one too many. In this intriguing novel you will explore the deepest realms of the plot from several character's point of view. What surprised me was the fact that we didn't hear anything from Kate until the epilogue, but looking back I can completely understand why Jodi Picoult wrote like that. This book will have you laughing at the funny one-liners of Cambell and weeping over the moral and ethical decisions that Sara and Brian have to make for their daughters. The ending was an extremely surprising and devastating. By the end of this novel I was dissolved to tears, both from joy and sadness. This books is one of the best ones I have ever personally had the chance to enjoy, hopefully millions of other young readers will enjoy it as much as I did. As a 13 year old girl I can fully relate to what Anna is going through, well without the fact that my older sister, Katie, isn't dying of cancer.