My Sister's Keeper

I came to know about this book through Bro LKM's blog (http://liaukm.blogspot.com/2010/01/my-sisters-keeper.html). His intro of the book and also the synopsis about the story tempted me into buying and reading it. And my conclusion after reading is, it's really a nice and 'must read' novel. The author Jodi Piccoult certainly knows how to create a storyline that challenges one to read on and at the same time to think 'what will I do if I were in the controversial situations'. The way she tells the story is also very new to me. In each chapter, the pronoun 'I' each represent different characters. For example, in the chapter labeled 'Anna', the 'I' refers to Anna whereas in another chapter labeled 'Campbell', the 'I' refers to Campbell. Readers get to read from the point of view of different characters as first person. You get to look at things from Anna's angle, from her parents' angle, from Campbell's etc. Yet all these different angles are actually telling the same line of story. The story ending is also least expected to me. I like this novel because it stimulates me to think what will my choice be if I were in those difficult situations as I read along. And I could tell you it is rather difficult to take anybody's side in this book. The person you dislike or like most turn out to be not what you think in the end. Whose action is right or wrong is also difficult to judge. Life is not always easy. Luckily enough though, I don't have to make a decision here since I'm only a reader.

Synopsis: About Anna Fitzgerald, a 13-year-old girl who enlists the help of an attorney, Campbell Alexander, to sue her parents for the rights to her body. Kate, Anna's older sister, suffers from acute promyelocytic leukemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. Anna was conceived through in vitro fertilization to be a donor who could save Kate's life. Her parents initially use Anna's umbilical cord blood to treat Kate, and continue to use Anna as a donor for other bodily substances as Kate cycles through remission and relapse over the years. Anna is usually willing to donate whatever Kate needs - blood, bone marrow - but a kidney transplant would be a major surgery for not only Kate, but Anna as well and living with one kidney would affect her greatly. Anna eventually petitions for medical emancipation so that she will be able to make her own decision concerning donating a kidney to Kate, who is experiencing renal failure. Sara, her mother, is an ex-lawyer and decides to represent herself and her husband in the lawsuit. She continually attempts to convince Anna to drop the suit, but Anna refuses to do so. (taken from wikipedia)