Description:
New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult is widely acclaimed for her keen insights into the hearts and minds of real people. Now she tells the emotionally riveting 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.
Review:
I've been afraid to read this book because I knew it would make me upset. But then I saw commercials on TV showing that the book had been made into a movie. So I figured I should read the book before the movie comes out. When I started reading it I was expecting a tear jerker. What I didn't expect was it being a tear-jerker from beginning to end. I was so angry and in the end of the book was absolutely devastated.
I am forever afraid to read anything from Jodi Picoult, only because I know she will rip my heart out and stomp on it before giving it back. The writing described everything that was going on perfectly sucking me into the story. It was as if I was living the turmoil and sorrow that family was going through. The movie was good until the very end. I was really really disappointed with the end of the movie. Not sure why they had to change it!!!
I highly recommend the book.
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