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Conceived with the purpose of being her sister’s donor, Anna is the glue that keeps her family together. Her purpose in life has always been clear. She keeps Kate, her sister, alive. At thirteen years old, she’s already been though numerous surgeries, shots, transfusions and other medical procedures to cure Kate’s form of leukemia. The heavy responsibility is starting to wear on her. Her identity has always been defined through Kate, but what will happen if Anna wants to become her own person? How much of yourself do you sacrifice before you start to fade away? My Sister’s Keeper is the provocative story of a family struggling for the most basic of human instincts. Survival. But whose? And at what cost? I’ve been avoiding this book for years because I knew it would be an emotional rollercoaster. I wasn’t wrong. But the crying was worth enduring. This was one of the most thought provoking, powerful books I’ve read this year. Picoult tells this family’s story from every possible point of view. She manages to capture every character in detail, making them as real as if I were sitting down to dinner with them. This is why I am drawn to her so much as a writer. She gives us every angle, and lets us ponder, never doing our thinking for us. The author’s depth of research in this book is to be admired. This must be what drew me in so deeply on an emotional level. I could feel what these amazing characters were going through, whether it was the daughter going through chemo, the sister helping her through it, the mother’s struggle watching her daughter endure the pain, the father trying to keep his family together or the brother’s unassuming, surprising way of support. Each characters feelings became my own. Picoult takes the concept of right and wrong, black or white to the ultimate test. And just when you think you have it all figured out, you realize you didn’t know anything at all.
Reviewed by Terri |
My Sister's Keeper
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