My Sister’s Keeper
If you use one of your children to save the life of another, are you being a good mother – or a very bad one?
My Sister’s Keeper is, undoubtedly, one of the best works in recent times. My Sister’s Keeper is an uplifting, emotional, sad, triumphant, passionate, heartwrenching and a very, very powerful story about the family of Fitzgeralds.
Kate Fitzgerald, the eldest daughter of the family, was diagnosed with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia at the age of 2 and has needed an organ donor ever since. But due to the risks involved in unmatched organ donations, Sarah and Brian (parents), on the advice of a doctor, try for a “perfectly engineered baby”.
Anna Fitzgerald was born with one purpose in mind – to be a donor for her sick sister, who she loves too damn much. Of course, she isn’t “sick” but she might as well be, because of the fact that the surgeries and transfusions just take as much out of Kate as Anna.In addition, because of Kate’s illness, she obediently stays close to her home; she never does despite her wants to go to a hockey camp and a college in the future. After already having given lymphocytes, bone marrow, blood cells and a number of other valuable organs, she is asked to give up one of her kidneys to just prolong the inevitable for her sister. She has had enough and although she loves her sister, she decides to look for a lawyer to sue her parents for the rights to her own body.
Jessie Fitzgerald, the oldest offspring of the Fitzgeralds, calls himself a “lost-cause”. He wasn’t a perfect match for Kate and considers himself worthless. With the family concentrating more on Kate and (to some extent) Anna, he feels left out and does things he never meant to do.
Sara, an adamant but a loving mother, wants to do whatever she can to help Kate live a little longer. She goes through several emotions when she decides to take the case, being an ex-lawyer herself. Kate will die. Why would Anna, her own sister, kill her? With a loving husband, Brian (a firefighter), she tries to clean the mess that has piled up in both her home and the court.
There are a very few number of books that I’ve felt as passionate about as My Sister’s Keeper. Jodi Picoult’s works were suggested by a friend and I am extremely happy that I followed his suggestion. Not a single one of her books seemed like a drag but this book is definitely the stand-out. By the end of the book, I had tears welding up in my eyes; something that hasn’t happened for a two good years of reading novels. Just like the way you felt in Nineteen Minutes, you’ll often question yourself on several aspects of the story. I recommend everyone to read this novel, if you’d want a good read.
Rating: 10/10.
ok thanks junior again
If you use one of your children to save the life of another, are you being a good mother – or a very bad one?
My Sister’s Keeper is, undoubtedly, one of the best works in recent times. My Sister’s Keeper is an uplifting, emotional, sad, triumphant, passionate, heartwrenching and a very, very powerful story about the family of Fitzgeralds.
Kate Fitzgerald, the eldest daughter of the family, was diagnosed with Acute Promyelocytic Leukemia at the age of 2 and has needed an organ donor ever since. But due to the risks involved in unmatched organ donations, Sarah and Brian (parents), on the advice of a doctor, try for a “perfectly engineered baby”.
Anna Fitzgerald was born with one purpose in mind – to be a donor for her sick sister, who she loves too damn much. Of course, she isn’t “sick” but she might as well be, because of the fact that the surgeries and transfusions just take as much out of Kate as Anna.In addition, because of Kate’s illness, she obediently stays close to her home; she never does despite her wants to go to a hockey camp and a college in the future. After already having given lymphocytes, bone marrow, blood cells and a number of other valuable organs, she is asked to give up one of her kidneys to just prolong the inevitable for her sister. She has had enough and although she loves her sister, she decides to look for a lawyer to sue her parents for the rights to her own body.
Jessie Fitzgerald, the oldest offspring of the Fitzgeralds, calls himself a “lost-cause”. He wasn’t a perfect match for Kate and considers himself worthless. With the family concentrating more on Kate and (to some extent) Anna, he feels left out and does things he never meant to do.
Sara, an adamant but a loving mother, wants to do whatever she can to help Kate live a little longer. She goes through several emotions when she decides to take the case, being an ex-lawyer herself. Kate will die. Why would Anna, her own sister, kill her? With a loving husband, Brian (a firefighter), she tries to clean the mess that has piled up in both her home and the court.
There are a very few number of books that I’ve felt as passionate about as My Sister’s Keeper. Jodi Picoult’s works were suggested by a friend and I am extremely happy that I followed his suggestion. Not a single one of her books seemed like a drag but this book is definitely the stand-out. By the end of the book, I had tears welding up in my eyes; something that hasn’t happened for a two good years of reading novels. Just like the way you felt in Nineteen Minutes, you’ll often question yourself on several aspects of the story. I recommend everyone to read this novel, if you’d want a good read.
Rating: 10/10.
ok thanks junior again