Book Report #109 - My Sister's Keeper

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

I admire Jodi for taking on such a complex subject in such a complicated structure. Each chapter was written from a different character's perspective to tell the story of 13-year old Anna who was genetically designed by her parents to be a match for her older sister Kate who is dying of leukemia. First Anna donated cord blood at birth, later blood, platelets and bone marrow and now is being told she will donate a kidney. What about what she wants? She hires a lawyer who agrees to work pro bono to get her medical emancipation.

This tears apart the family and there are loads and loads of drama thrown in. There's a twist at the end that almost made me lose it. I felt the tears coming but stopped them before they fell.

I really did come to care about these characters and couldn't wait to find out what happened to them but I couldn't help feeling that it was all a little too contrived and therefore unbelievable.

General consensus: A good effort but missed the mark.