My Sister's Keeper A-2

Name: Rebecca Knell
Period: A-2
Book Title: My Sister's Keeper
Author: Jodi Picoult
Pages: 423
Rating: ****

Recommendation: My Sister's Keeper is a really sweet and heart touching book. I recommend this book probably to women. This book puts you in the life of a family struggling with cancer, and gives you a real life perspective. It is funny, loving, and very powerful to the heart.

Summary: Anna Fitzgerald and Kate Fitzgerald are sisters. Kate is very ill with leukemia. Ever since Anna has been a baby, she has had to go through so much pain with surgery after surgery. The thing is, Anna isn't even sick. Before she was born her parents found out that if they had a genetically engineered baby, they could help Kate get better. So that's what they did. Since Anna has the exact same bone marrow and blood cells as Kate. Anna has been in so many surgeries like Kate. It's like Anna has leukemia. She's always in and out of the hospital just like Kate. Anna is tired of having to go through all of this pain. Anna decides that she wants to stop doing all of this and gets herself a lawyer to sue her parents for the right of her own body. Her parents are totally confused about Anna's decision. They don't know what to do. Anna's family tries to talk Anna out of it. But the truth is they don't know why Anna is really doing all of this. What will her family have to go through to find out the truth?

Explanation of Rating: This book is magical and will bring you to tears (in a good way). It is heart warming and makes you want to keep reading it to the very end. My
Sister's Keeper shows a realistic life style of a family going through cancer. It makes you want to be better in your own life seeing how life can be taken away from you very quick and how anyone can be sick. Jodi Picoult wrote this book very beautifully realistic. It has humor, love, and intensity all in one book.

Favorite passage: "It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind." -Brian Pg. 327

I like this because we can't always be the hero. In fact most of us will never be the hero. Most of us are the quiet hero's that no one knows about. Who are left behind, doing all the "grunt" works of life.