My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

With her penetrating insight into the hearts and minds of real people, Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper examines what it means to be a good parent, a good sister, a good person, and what happens when emotions meet with scientific advances. ***Now a major film.***

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. **Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate a life and a role that she has never questioned until now.**

**Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to ask herself 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.**

**Told from multiple points of view, 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? 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.***

There are two kinds of good books. The ones that are very enjoyable to read but once you put them down, sooner or later, you forget about them. Then there are ones that you don't. They stay with you forever and change you and the way you look at life itself. My Sister's Keeper was one of those books. Since I read this book, it has been my benchmark book, my litmus test, if you will. Every time I finish a new book, I compare it to this and wonder how it fared. And for now only one book managed to be in the same level as this. And even that didn't make me cry half as much as this. No book ever did.

The book has everything you'd want in a book. It has really beautiful prose. The author talks about everyday things such as stars and fire and makes them seem so beautiful, it makes me wonder if we both are seeing the same thing. The story is touching and heartbreaking but it leaves a glimmer of hope. A person who manages to read this book without crying seriously needs to be awarded a Nobel Prize. And the characters have a depth unlike any other. Anna was undoubtedly my favourite followed closely by Jesse. I actually had to stop reading because my eyes were so blurry at the part where Anna is thinking about her funeral and how it will be so much different from Kate's. And even though I haven't talked about them a lot, Campbell and Julia's story was very interesting. One of the many reasons, this story is so close to my heart was because I fell in love with Anna almost in the start of the book, when Brian says:

“...Anna is our family's constant. Anna comes in with a smile. Anna tells us about the robin she found with the broken wing and a blush on its cheek; or about the mother she saw at Wal-Mart with not one but two sets of twins. Anna gives us a backbeat, and seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realise that silence has a sound.”

And if that quote alone doesn't make you read this book, I don't know what will. Sure, the book's ending is going to rip your heart out,stomp on it with spiky shoes and then pass it though a shredder but it is still worth it,if you ask me.

This book had my attention and I read it quickly. I knew there would be a twist at the end, but I didn't know what it would be. I didn't like the twist at all (personally) and it kind of ruined the book for me. And the whole thing seemed a little drawn out to me as well.

This book is extremely good and extremely sad, all at the same.

This book was one hell of an Emotional journey, What I loved is the portrayal of every character, there is no bad guy. it's just their choices which are creating havoc in everyone's life.
You will not able to put this book down until you finish it, you will indulge yourself in the book, root for your favorite character till you finish it.
The possibility is, in the End, you will feel cheated. Not that I am a sucker for happy endings it's just that it feels easy writing and rushed ending.
well, even then I'll suggest everyone to read this book.