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My Sister's Keeper

by Jodi Picoult

First Published

2009

Subjects

Jodi Picoult
Movie Tie-in
Adult
American Domestic
Fiction
Literature
Family
Sisters
Mothers
Daughters
Cancer
Leukemia
Sick children
Teenage girls
Morals
Morality
Ethics
Ethical
Donors
Bone
Marrow
Organ
Genetic
Engineering
Hospital
Patient
Blood
Transfusions
Transplants
Needles
Bruising
Successful? Not? Muchachas adolescentes
Hermanas
Madre e hija
Novela doméstica
Leucemia
Ficción
Pacientes
Parent and child
Patients
Organ donors
Mothers and daughters
Fiction, family life
Mothers and daughters, fiction
Sisters, fiction
Family Life
Literary
Women
Teenagers
Girls
Donation of organs, tissues
Children
Mother-daughter relationship
Domestic fiction
Psychology
Realistic Fiction
Fiction, family life, general
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New York Times reviewed
Famille
Romans
Sœurs
Romans, nouvelles
Adolescentes
Donneurs d'organes
Enfants malades
Mères et filles
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Leucémiques
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Bone marrow
Transplantation
Genetic engineering
Moral and ethical aspects

Description

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. ***Now a major film.*** 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 ask herself 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? **Once again, in My Sister's Keeper, *Jodi Picoult tackles a controversial real-life subject with grace, wisdom, and sensitivity.***

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