Cover of My Sister's Keeper
Read Time: ~9.8 hr

My Sister's Keeper

by Jodi Picoult (2005)

About this book

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.***

Setting / LocationNew York City
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreMy Sister's Keeper Lead Character

Readers who enjoyed this also loved

Cover of Unlocked

Unlocked

Karen Kingsbury

Holden Harris is an autistic eighteen-year-old who is bullied at school. Ella Reynolds is the head cheerleader who befriends Holden but has problems of her own at home.

Cover of The Wednesday letters

The Wednesday letters

Jason F. Wright

After the death of their parents, three siblings return home and find a box of letters written by their father to their mother that uncovers the shocking truth about the past.

Cover of Girls in the moon

Girls in the moon

Janet McNally

Tired of the half-truths surrounding her famous family's past, Phoebe visits her indie-rock darling sister Luna to see how she fits into a family of storytellers.

Cover of Starting over

Starting over

Elizabeth Spencer

A collection of nine short stories explores the emotional fault lines that lie just beneath the surface of happy family life.

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult | Literally Just Books