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Book Report: My Sister’s Keeper

5C Chole Ho Suet Mei

My Sister’s Keeper was written in 2004
by Jodi Picoult, who is a prolific author of a
number of well-known works including The
Pact, Plain Truth, The Tenth Circle and Salem
Falls. My Sister’s Keeper was an immediate
success after its release and was adapted into
a Hollywood movie in 2009.
Jodi Picoult was born in the United States
in 1996. Her first novel Song of the Humpback
Whale was published in 1992. It uses the
same fascinating alternating narrator style
that Picoult employs in My Sister’s Keeper, in
which characters take turns narrating chapters.
Jodi Picoult was awarded the New England
Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003.
My Sister’s Keeper is 432 pages long and
is published by Atria Books: New York.
I was first attracted by the title of the book, My Sister’s Keeper, which suggests
that the younger sister needs to be the keeper or protector of the older sister. It tells
the story of 13-year-old Anna, who sues her parents for medical emancipation when
she is expected to donate a kidney to her sister Kate, who is dying from leukemia.
The story takes place in the fictional town of Upper Darby, Rhode Island in
2004. Anna’s older sister Kate suffers from acute promyelocytic leukemia. Kate’s
mother tries very hard to save her, so they use medical science and technology
to help give birth to their second child Anna, who has a perfect genetic typing of
Kate and is therefore an ideal person in providing all sorts of cells to help Kate’s
treatment. Ever since Anna was born, she is willing to donate whatever Kate needs
as Kate medical conditions failed to improve over the years. When Anna turns 13,
she is asked to donate her kidney and she finds it too difficult for her to bear the
possible impact and she honestly believes that even with the donation of the kidney,

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