Jodi Picoult. (2016). My Sister's Keeper: A Novel. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio.

Jodi Picoult. 2016. My Sister's Keeper: A Novel. Simon & Schuster Audio.

Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper: A Novel. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2016.

Jodi Picoult. My Sister's Keeper: A Novel. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio, 2016.

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   • bioText: Jodi Picoult received an AB in creative writing from Princeton and a master's degree in education from Harvard. The recipient of the 2003 New England Book Award for her entire body of work, she is the author of twenty-seven novels, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers House Rules, Handle With Care, Change of Heart, and My Sister's Keeper, for which she received the American Library Association's Margaret Alexander Edwards Award. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children. Visit her website at JodiPicoult.com.
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New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult tells the story of a girl who decides to sue her parents for the rights to her own body in this riveting story that tackles a controversial subject with grace and explores what it means to be a good person.
Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally powerful story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness.

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, 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.

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? Is it worth trying to discover who you really are, if that quest makes you like yourself less? 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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     February 16, 2004
     The difficult choices a family must make when a child is diagnosed with a serious disease are explored with pathos and understanding in this 11th novel by Picoult (Second Glance
     , etc.). The author, who has taken on such controversial subjects as euthanasia (Mercy
     ), teen suicide (The Pact
     ) and sterilization laws (Second Glance
     ), turns her gaze on genetic planning, the prospect of creating babies for health purposes and the ethical and moral fallout that results. Kate Fitzgerald has a rare form of leukemia. Her sister, Anna, was conceived to provide a donor match for procedures that become increasingly invasive. At 13, Anna hires a lawyer so that she can sue her parents for the right to make her own decisions about how her body is used when a kidney transplant is planned. Meanwhile, Jesse, the neglected oldest child of the family, is out setting fires, which his firefighter father, Brian, inevitably puts out. Picoult uses multiple viewpoints to reveal each character's intentions and observations, but she doesn't manage her transitions as gracefully as usual; a series of flashbacks are abrupt. Nor is Sara, the children's mother, as well developed and three-dimensional as previous Picoult protagonists. Her devotion to Kate is understandable, but her complete lack of sympathy for Anna's predicament until the trial does not ring true, nor can we buy that Sara would dust off her law degree and represent herself in such a complicated case. Nevertheless, Picoult ably explores a complex subject with bravado and clarity, and comes up with a heart-wrenching, unexpected plot twist at the book's conclusion.

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   • content: Anna Fitzgerald was conceived and brought into the world in order to provide genetically matched tissue for her sister Kate, who suffers a rare form of leukemia. After donating cord blood, platelets, and bone marrow countless times, at 13 Anna "hires" a lawyer to sue for her medical emancipation from her parents, rather than donate a kidney. Not everything in this melodrama earns belief. The mother, a former lawyer, decides to represent herself in the lawsuit; the father is a fireman, and the troubled brother is an arsonist; and Anna's court-appointed guardian ad litum was her lawyer's first girlfriend. But the full cast of narrators taking each of the above roles is impeccably good. WHY does the producer not offer a cast list? B.G. 2005 Audie Award Finalist (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine

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Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally powerful story of a family torn apart by conflicting needs and a passionate love that triumphs over human weakness.

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