Book Review: My Sister’s Keeper

Book Review: My Sister’s Keeper
By: Jodi Picoult

Wow. Talk about a story where there is no ‘right’ and no ‘wrong’. Picoult does a fabulous side of showing both sides of a difficult situation within a struggling family.

A family has a young son and daughter. At a very early age the daughter forms a rare type of cancer. She needs donors, but they need to be a very specific match. Nobody in the family is a match. Desperate to keep their daughter alive, the parents decide to create a designer baby. Nine months later, a baby girl is born and the blood from the umbilical cord is used to save her older daughter’s life. And thus begins the slippery slope of sacrificing one daughter for the other.

Things continue along the cycle of remission and flare ups until the younger daughter, Anna, reaches 15. Then everything goes to hell in a hand basket. Trust me when I say I’d like to tell you about it. Also trust me when I say, I don’t want to spoil any of the many twists by revealing anything. Seriously, go in blind and let yourself be shocked, wowed and gripped. I think I’m a Picoult fan!

I haven’t seen the movie, so I am unable to compare the two. However, I have heard that the sobs in the theater near the end of the movie make it difficult to hear what is going on. Maybe rent it. And keep the tissue handy. I know I will.

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